sahafiec
I would never allow my children to shoot, no matter how old.
why are people so crazy about guns and shooting!?
there is already more than enough war all around the world...

rjohnson11

sahafiec
so a 9 year old girl firing UZI is actually doing sports? WOW, that's a very interesting point of view.
the comparison with car driving is just ridiculous if you ask me.

In the USA guns and shooting targets at gun ranges is common place and affirmed in the U.S. Constitution. Those living in countries outside the USA have a hard time grasping this concept but it is part of American culture and lifestyle. 
 
Gun recoils, especially an Uzi,  are too strong in my opinion for girls this young. 

rjohnson11

sahafiec
so a 9 year old girl firing UZI is actually doing sports? WOW, that's a very interesting point of view.
the comparison with car driving is just ridiculous if you ask me.

In the USA guns and shooting targets at gun ranges is common place and affirmed in the U.S. Constitution. Those living in countries outside the USA have a hard time grasping this concept but it is part of American culture and lifestyle. 
 
Gun recoils, especially an Uzi,  are too strong in my opinion for girls this young. 

jd72389

rjohnson11

sahafiec
so a 9 year old girl firing UZI is actually doing sports? WOW, that's a very interesting point of view.
the comparison with car driving is just ridiculous if you ask me.

In the USA guns and shooting targets at gun ranges is common place and affirmed in the U.S. Constitution. Those living in countries outside the USA have a hard time grasping this concept but it is part of American culture and lifestyle. 
 
Gun recoils, especially an Uzi,  are too strong in my opinion for girls this young. 

well said
 
in my opinion children under 10 should stick with a .22 or a .410 bore shotty that is either bol, lever, or pump action etc if no one is helping them hold it and all hand guns they should have assistance

ridesy

rjohnson11

sahafiec
so a 9 year old girl firing UZI is actually doing sports? WOW, that's a very interesting point of view.
the comparison with car driving is just ridiculous if you ask me.

In the USA guns and shooting targets at gun ranges is common place and affirmed in the U.S. Constitution. Those living in countries outside the USA have a hard time grasping this concept but it is part of American culture and lifestyle. 
 
Gun recoils, especially an Uzi,  are too strong in my opinion for girls this young. 

Always struggle with these conversations with our counterparts "over the pond" as we recoil at images of Iraqi/Syrian/Afghan or ANY children holding guns, as it just looks "wrong".
 
You see a photo of a ten year old African boy, or a nine year old Iraqi lad holding an AK47 and we recoil in horror (odd that recoil is correct English word for this feeling too), but in the U.S. many, not all by any means, see this as OK/somehow normal and don't react with the same utter horror at this utterly tragic story as we non gun-carrying nations.
 
As sahafiec has said the comparison to deaths on roads/racing or anything the like is just nuts, as these things are not designed to kill whereas I hate to point out guns were.
Guns were not invented for sport/target practice or anything like that, they were developed to kill and I would hazard a guess specifically to kill people (use for hunting probably came as a by-product).
 
Also would just like to add that we over here find the constant reminder that this is part of some arcane constitution as a reason to allow this, just doesn't hold water.
I am sure a historian could show ancient laws/rights that would approve of drowning suspected witches and other equally ridiculous and violent things, but society in these countries has moved on and I am hopeful, really hopeful, that if the founding fathers who wrote that ancient document could see how guns and for that matter society have evolved that they would agree this may now be "out of context".
 
I am sure I will be shot down in flames, as so many in the U.S. still support gun ownership despite many atrocities far worse than this very unfortunate accident, but equally don't be surprised to find that your allies across the pond do find this very, very odd!
 
Ridesy

Kamarad
I was looking around articles and I actually found the video that shows the actual incident directly before the instructor gets shot.  She does one shot very well, but then she goes full auto and you can see the gun suddenly curve to her left where the instructor is right next to her.  The video abruptly cuts off at that point, but I believe that someone out there has the rest of the video showing him actually getting shot.  So sad.......

sahafiec
so a 9 year old girl firing UZI is actually doing sports? WOW, that's a very interesting point of view.
the comparison with car driving is just ridiculous if you ask me.

martinch

rjohnson11In the USA guns and shooting targets at gun ranges is common place and affirmed in the U.S. Constitution. Those living in countries outside the USA have a hard time grasping this concept but it is part of American culture and lifestyle.

Obviously America has a different culture to Europe, but I don't think it's as much a usage of guns for sport (target-shooting) that us foreigners have a hard time grasping, but the seeming lack of "proportionality" (overkill) in the weapon selected.  For instance, I can see why someone would need/want a pistol (protection, target shooting), rifle (hunting, pest control, target shooting), or shotgun (pest control, hunting).  What I cannot see is why someone would "need" an assault rifle- or Uzi-type weapon, let alone an M134 minigun(!) - being military-grade weapons, they just "seem not to be sensible", if that makes sense..? It (and this next bit probably needs to be read in the voice of "Ducky" from NCIS in order for the intended humour to work) "all seems a little unnecessary, dear boy".