Nine year old kills instructor

[Light]

What kind of mom and dad takes a nine year child to a gun range to use a machine gun?




http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...nstructor-dead

[n david]

I actually agree with you here!

And the gun instructor should have had more sense and refused to let that girl shoot that gun on his range.

Feel terrible for that little girl though. How awful to just witness something like that, much less know she killed him.

[KeptByTheWord]

Wow. What a tragedy for all concerned. This could happen to any child shooting any high powered gun.

[n david]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

Wow. What a tragedy for all concerned. This could happen to any child shooting any high powered gun.

Yes, horrible, awful tragedy. No need to make a political statement with it.

[Light]

Originally Posted by n david

Yes, horrible, awful tragedy. No need to make a political statement with it.

I wasn't making a political point. You with your post have now brought politics into the conversation.
The point of my post was the STUPIDITY of the PARENTS.
In my opinion the child should be removed from these idiots.

[n david]

Originally Posted by Light

I wasn't making a political point. You with your post have now brought politics into the conversation.

Good to know you weren't; however, you've used other tragedies, namely the OK tornados, to make a political point. My one comment didn't bring politics into the conversation. It was meant to make sure no libs did.

Originally Posted by Light

The point of my post was the STUPIDITY of the PARENTS.
In my opinion the child should be removed from these idiots.

You would rather this 9 year old girl be ripped from her family and taken as a ward of the state? As much as I fault the parents here, taking the girl away is extreme.

I would imagine you or your wife did something stupid while raising your kid(s), we all have. Sure, it likely didn't result in someone losing their life, but the parents will have to live with this regret the rest of their life.

[Jermyn Davidson]

No need for a political statement is right.

What we need is action to curtail unnecessary tragedies like this from happening in the future.

We always tend to learn AFTER the fact-- common sense would have prevented this from happening in the first place!

[Light]

N-David
You would rather this 9 year old girl be ripped from her family and taken as a ward of the state? As much as I fault the parents here, taking the girl away is extreme.

These parents are guiltily of child endangerment no matter what the local police are saying and also refusing to charge these idiots.

One could hope there would be someone in this poor 9 year old's family that are not idiots who could raise her.

N-David
I would imagine you or your wife did something stupid while raising your kid(s), we all have. Sure, it likely didn't result in someone losing their life, but the parents will have to live with this regret the rest of their life.

Wow defending these idiots by saying responsible parents must have done stupid things while raising their children.

[n david]

Originally Posted by Light

These parents are guiltily of child endangerment no matter what the local police are saying and also refusing to charge these idiots.

One could hope there would be someone in this poor 9 year old's family that are not idiots who could raise her.

Believe it or not, the police have to follow the law. If they're not charging the parents, it's probably because they can't. Also, typically the prosecutor will review deaths like this to see if any laws were violated.

Originally Posted by Light

Wow defending these idiots by saying responsible parents must have done stupid things while raising their children.

I'm not defending them. While I don't know the state statutes, I would be for child endangerment charges if applicable. What they did was irresponsible and wrong.

Here's the deal...you're going to go on with your life as you know it. They can't. They have to not only deal with their regret and feeling they personally caused the death of a man...but they also have to deal with a traumatized 9-year-old girl, who will likely have nightmares of this event for years to come.

Nothing you can wish for them will be worse than that.

[KeptByTheWord]

I once shot a very high powered rifle, can't remember what it was. It jolted me, and thew me backwards. I don't ever need to shoot an Uzi, or any high powered semi or semiautomatic rifle! This certainly should be a wake-up call for those who think that anyone can fire one of those guns.