World opinion is of no importance in this matter. It is a matter that needs to be decided by Americans.
That it’s a bad idea to let incompetent boobs put dangerous items into the hands of inexperienced children?
Ask this guy, he was older but the dead person was his brother.
No, the legality of owning such items in the first place. Whether you happened to notice or not, there is a long, on-going, often hostile debate concerning the private ownership of weapons in the US. That debate and the legal outcomes from it, must be decided by Americans. What people from outside the US think is of no importance.
You mean like Texas school teachers?
“That’ll learn 'em.”
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When the bullies gang up on you at recess, a single-shot .22 just doesn’t cut it.
Well, that wasn’t even brought up in this thread until you came along, so I was a bit confused.
Of the two of you, you aren’t the one that’s confused, believe me.
From this thread. Bolding mine.
IIRC, no new fully automatic weapons can be manufactured or imported for civilian use, but those that were already in civilian hands before a certain date were grandfathered in.
I’d understood that such weapons were tightly regulated, though. Either I was wrong, or ‘tightly regulated’ has different meanings to different people.
Too bad this didn’t happen in Reno.
I would have liked to see the the whole video if it actually had been running through the whole accident. There would hopefully be enough information in it to see actually what happened.
As with most things, there is no way to actually see what happened.`
When something goes wrong, of course ‘they’ should have had better sense is always the cry.
So, why let or teach 9 year old’s to do anything that could hurt them.
Race go carts, motorcycles, sailboats, have a pocket knife, have a “Pit Bull” ( oh shit, that is so stupid to ever take a chance on… ) in the house and on and on and on.
If people like us keep it in front of the kid for 10 years with microphones in her face every year, prolly going to not help, but we have a right to know who she is handling it.
And Putting her in foster care while the parents are in prison for 10 years will help her get over it.
Need to shut that place down along with the Indianapolis Speed way and all those other dangerous places or at least make it illegal to take a chile to the races, some have been killed just watching for God’s sake, the horror…
and on
and on
and on…
When my kids were little, I was always much more scared of my children being under a doctors care than being at a gun range.
Feel sorry for all concerned in this.
Then your parents should be charged with child abuse as well as far as I’m concerned. Just because you feel you didn’t suffer doesn’t make it abuse. It’s reckless behavior to let a minor operate a weapon that requires a federal license to own. Would it be OK if they let them play with rattlesnakes? Let them drive a car? Why is it any different from letting a kid go to a racetrack and drive top fuel dragster? You do know that there is a difference between a go kart and dragster right? A reasonable person would call that not only stupid but child endangerment. The parents should be jailed.
It happened in Arizona, but your point is taken.
I agree. General chucklefuckery by the “adults” involved.
If you go to a party and make a scene, while everyone is telling you that you’re drunk and need to stop drinking, then you need to stop drinking.
Same general rule applies here: if everyone is telling you not to give automatic weapons to young girls, it’s stupid to ignore good advice.
I’m not anti-gun, but none of these things is remotely related to giving a 9-year-old a fully automatic sub-machine gun…just sayin’.
There are dangerous things, and there are automatic weapons.
Maybe you should ask your parents since they let you shoot automatic weapons at that age.
Cite that other countries have been telling the US not to give automatic weapons to young girls?
Unless that good advice happens to come from a funny-talkin’ furriner, according to Scumpup.
The problem is an Uzi is (a) something very inherently dangerous when not controlled in use, and (b) requires more physical strength to fully safely control in full auto mode than the average 9 year old girl is likely to have.
So giving a 9 year old girl one, and telling her to use it in full auto mode, is dumb. It is like giving a 9 year old girl a large, heavy chainsaw and attempting to teach her to cut down trees with it. It is completely foreseeable that she could lose control of the tool and end up harming herself or others as a result.
There is nothing inherently wrong with intoducing children of that age to tools, even potentially dangerous tools, if they are mature enough to handle them. There is something inherently wrong with giving a child that age a tool that is potentially dangerous, and one which requires some physical strength to safely control.
Dammit! If only someone had said something earlier…