If anything could more starkly underline the ridiculousness and tragedy of gun law in the United States, then it is hard to see what it could be. At the Last Stop outdoor firing range in the Mohave desert, outside Las Vegas, a slightly-built, nine-year old girl was being taught to fire a lethal automatic weapon, in the form of an Uzi sub-machine gun.
Her unfortunate firearms instructor died, after he was shot was shot in the head, because the recoil on the powerful gun was too strong for her weak wrists, and it jumped upward and backward, meaning that one round went through the head of 39-year-old instructor Charles Vacca, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, who later died at the hospital of his mortal injury.
In the state of Arizona, unbelievably, the law says that children as young as eight can be taught to use such deadly weapons, as long as they are supervised by a parent and a properly qualified teacher, but surely the complete idiocy of this practice must now be plain to see. The parents were actually filming this training session, and even though it has not been confirmed, it is believed that the whole thing has been visually recorded. …show more content…
Does she end up traumatized for life, with an aversion to ever holding a weapon again, or does she perhaps reflect upon how easy it turned out to be to take the life of another with this exciting plaything her parents insisted she use? The desire never to fire a gun again would be preferable, but one just never
Her unfortunate firearms instructor died, after he was shot was shot in the head, because the recoil on the powerful gun was too strong for her weak wrists, and it jumped upward and backward, meaning that one round went through the head of 39-year-old instructor Charles Vacca, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, who later died at the hospital of his mortal injury.
In the state of Arizona, unbelievably, the law says that children as young as eight can be taught to use such deadly weapons, as long as they are supervised by a parent and a properly qualified teacher, but surely the complete idiocy of this practice must now be plain to see. The parents were actually filming this training session, and even though it has not been confirmed, it is believed that the whole thing has been visually recorded. …show more content…
Does she end up traumatized for life, with an aversion to ever holding a weapon again, or does she perhaps reflect upon how easy it turned out to be to take the life of another with this exciting plaything her parents insisted she use? The desire never to fire a gun again would be preferable, but one just never