Is this real?

[Cognisant]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cfMzK7QwfrU

Nine year old kills instructor with a Uzi.

Tell me this isn't real.
That was the title of the video and right at the end the gun recoils left...

 

[Jennywocky]

As far as I know, it's real -- it was on the front feed of main news distributors here in the States. (CNN, ABC, etc.)

Of course, I'm just here shaking my head.

I feel worst for the girl, who trusted the adults taking care of her and now will have to live with their mistakes for the rest of her life. I mean, she killed a guy with a family even though she obviously didn't mean to. Lots of trust and self-shame issues among other things now, for her to deal with.

 

[Cognisant]

I fired guns when I was a kid too but that was at a shooting range where the guns were chained/clamped to the table so although you could hold, aim and fire them it was impossible to turn them around.

Giving a little girl an automatic and telling her to hold down the trigger...

On one hand that's a horrifying example of cultural complacency, on the other it makes great fodder for natural selection jokes.

 

[redbaron]

> Buy automatic weapon
> Give to 9 year old
> Surprised by outcome

 

[Jennywocky]

Giving a little girl an automatic and telling her to hold down the trigger...

Pretty much. All the gun nuts are saying it's safe for a 6 year old to learn how to fire a gun; but we're not even just talking about single-shot pistols here, we're talking an Uzi with massive repeated recoil in the hands of a kid with no experience with skinny arms. Wtf?

On one hand that's a horrifying example of cultural complacency, on the other it makes great fodder for natural selection jokes.

If only it usually worked that way...

@Redbaron: Great post, here I set it up for you as a JPG

Spoiler

 

[cheese]

I feel worst for the girl, who trusted the adults taking care of her and now will have to live with their mistakes for the rest of her life. I mean, she killed a guy with a family even though she obviously didn't mean to. Lots of trust and self-shame issues among other things now, for her to deal with.

Hahaha. I couldn't help but read this the wrong way at first. I was so confused.
*googles how to use 'family' as lethal weapon*

 

[redbaron]

@Redbaron: Great post, here I set it up for you as a JPG

Spoiler

I laughed way too hard at that.

 

[Jennywocky]

Hahaha. I couldn't help but read this the wrong way at first. I was so confused.
*googles how to use 'family' as lethal weapon*

You apparently haven't met some families...

 

[Pyropyro]

Ugh... the instructor sound really nice and reassuring to the child in the clip so I feel worse about the incident.

 

[own8ge]

Only if you believe it's real.

 

[The Introvert]

Only if you believe it's real.

I forgot that's how it worked.

 

[Reluctantly]

I'm actually not surprised having fired a semi-automatic on burst; because if you aren't standing in a way to absorb the recoil with your legs, the gun will be hard to control.

Now add to the fact that the gun in question seems to have been a fully automatic weapon, the girl wasn't standing to absorb the recoil, and she's probably not very strong...because she's very young...and this instructor was not thinking at all. It's too bad because I think he just wanted her to have fun.