3607

Who wouldn’t want to fire the rifle from Jumanji!?

And no. That’s not a Photoshop.

Edit: I don’t have an issue with this place existing. I mean, other than it being sort of tacky and cheesy. Then again, it’s Vegas. Not exactly known for its subtlety.

I will say that I have no idea why anyone would put a fully automatic Uzi in the hands of a nine-year-old.

3608

From what I see in the video his mistake was he let her fire it once, in semi-auto or burst mode. Then he switches it to full auto. I would have had her fire the entire magazine in semi auto, and only after seeing she has total mastery of the weapon would I have considered going full auto.

That’s if I was crazy enough to hand a kid that young an Uzi, which I’m not.

3609

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/shooting-instructor-dies-after-being-accidentally-shot-girl

I watched the video, and broke my heart. To imagine the memory of this children will have of a head with bullet holes, and a dead person just next to her. Two lives ruined.

3610

I agree 100% with this. Have I let my younger nephews and niece shoot my guns? Sure, but only in such a way that I can reach out and immediately control the weapon if they were to do something stupid. Letting a child shoot an automatic weapon, especially a tiny one like an Uzi, is stupid. And negligent. I see no difference in this vs. the idiots who try to set records by proxy with their children and let them fly airplanes solo.

I did all sorts of “grown-up” things as a child, but under proper supervision. Guns, knives, cars, tractors, whatever. But the car was a pickup truck on our farm, not a Bugatti. The guns were shotguns and rifles, always under complete supervision. My motorcycle was a 50cc Honda, not a Hayabusa. It’s pretty fucking simple math.

3611

Cops shoot and kill “Cops” crewmember. I guess this was inevitable.

A staffer on the long-running television crime show Cops was shot and killed Tuesday night, reportedly by friendly fire from local police, while videotaping an armed robbery in progress in Omaha, Nebraska, that also left the suspect dead.

3612

Easily angered people like you shouldn’t be allowed near guns. Please take your guns back to the store.

3613

edit: …Okay, well, never mind then.

3614

Phrasing.

3615

Which family? The guy is still dead, insurance or not. The poor girl still has to live with that, insurance or not. I can’t really blame the place either. Last year there was a skydiving accident in Oklahoma where a 16 girl suffered massive injuries like a broken pelvis from her jump. Her family blames equipment malfunctions but from the girl’s own words it sounds like she was in a panic and forgot her training, as you’d expect from someone that young. The thing is, the girl was from TEXAS! Her dad took her out of state to jump because it’s against Texas law to allow someone that young to skydive. Texas is not known for business regulation and even they won’t allow it. Mom and Dad figured out a way around that easily enough. These firing ranges are the same type of business, people need to use common sense before they even go there. If the parents are set on having their daughter fire an Uzi, they’ll find somewhere to do it, regulations won’t stop it.

3616

The family of the killed man. Workplace insurance.

I’d expect the same of any occupation which involved danger sports, working close to dangerous heavy machinery, etc. - or in this case being around guns being fired the entire time.
(The insurance rates are going to be closely correlated with actual risks, of course)

3617

That incident was not something you can solve with a regulation.

The answer is simpler: The instructors should also be armed. That 9-year old could have been stopped if the instructor were strapped. More guns = more safety, right?

(and just to be very clear, that was sarcasm. Except for the first sentence. You really can’t regulate people into not being stupid)

3618

Nor can you regulate them into not using a horrific accident to parrot inane gun control tropes, but there you go.

3619

To be clear, was that directed at me?

3620

This is my thoughts as well. Why would you not be in a position to immediately take control of the weapon?

3621

I was going to make a joke about education and jobs for 9 year old girls, but it’s too sad.

3622

“Quit taking away our guns! We need our 9 year old girls to have uzis to protect them from black people! In the Middle East, children often learn to use RPGs from the time they leave the cradle, and everybody over there feels safe all the time.”

3623

“I told her guns make me feel uncomfortable. She told me we both should see other men.” (Added comment by Vacca: lmfao)

Not quite but almost the final words of the instructor in question on Facebook.

3624

If you’re asking me, then no. I was speaking more of the NRA’s position that the solution to gun safety is to arm everyone. I’m still vaguely angry that they treated Sandy Hook as a marketing opportunity.

3625

The CBS news actually showed a video someone else had taken at the same range where the instructor in a similar situation had far better control because of where he was positioned. In that case, he was actually standing behind the shooter (also a young child) but in a way where his right arm could take control of the situation if the gun drifted without being in the line of fire. He used his left hand to steady the shooter if they stumbled back. Compare that to the actual video, where the instructor is actually standing to the left of the child, meaning when she lost control and the gun drifted to the left he was in the direction it was going and only had his left hand to try and intervene because his right hand was on the girls back.

3626

They do that with nearly every shooting, which is why many pro-gun people don’t support them.