Posted by NCWayne on August 27, 2014 at 07:17:05 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: kids and guns posted by brandon j on August 27, 2014 at 03:29:59:
You just posted this same basic thread yesterday. Given your wording it begs the question, did you "just see it" today, or was it yesterday. In either case it appears that all your intentionally trying to do is to create drama on here given the way most country folks feel about guns.
That said I don"t think there is a one of us that doesn"t feel sorry for the child involved in the incident, or for the guys family. At the same time I think, based on the replies, that the majority of us also will say that it was the instructors fault, and his own stupidity that got him killed. IF it was a full auto firearm, be it a pistol or a carbine, then he should have had control over it while the girl was shooting rather than letting her do it herself with him basically watching. I know when I taught my daughter to shoot an AK (not full auto mind you), and when I taught her to shoot a pistol in the beginning, my hands were ALWAYS on the gun to insure it stayed pointed in a safe direction no matter what happened.
Ultimately, like another post stated, everyday cars kill people, knives kill people, people kill with their bare hand, you can smother and kill with a pillow, personally I had a relative killed with a ball bat, people die from alcohol use, from tobacco use, and a myriad of other things. In all cases though it is the human factor that is involved that is the cause of the death, not the item used.
With the alcohol, etc it"s a matter of human choice, use, or don"t use, and that is pretty cut and dried. With machines it"s not such an exact science because malfunctions can happen when it comes to any type of machine. Thing is when it comes to firearms IF you follow the rules for safe handling, the likelihood of a true accident is reduced to nearly nothing. I know years ago my dad experienced a malfunction with a double barrel shotgun he was using to dove hunt. When he closed the breach it fired because one of the firing pins had stuck and hit the primer as the gun latched shut. Had he not been following safe handling procedures I would have been shot, but as it was the round went off and hit the dirt between us. Scared the heck out of the both of us, and scared Dad so bad he didn"t pick up that gun to take to the gunsmith for several years. Ultimately though what happened was a true accident and the human factor of paying attention, and following the rules of safe handling prevailed and no one was hurt.
Unfortunately, in this case the instructor got complacent, did something stupid, and he paid the ultimate price. It"s that simple, but I"ll bet before long the anti gun crowd will be all over it trying to get age limits on shooting, etc. To that I say they can kiss my a$$ before they tell me my daughter can"t learn proper firearm handling, and how to protect herself when she is home alone.
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