An 8-year-old boy has died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision in western Massachusetts.
Police Lt. Lawrence Valliere says the boy lost control of the weapon while firing it Sunday at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club. Police say the force of the weapon made it “travel up and back” to the boy’s head.
The victim was taken to Baystate Medical Center where he died.
His name was not immediately released.
Update – The Associated Press as added some details to this tragic story:
With an instructor watching, an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair aimed an Uzi at a pumpkin and pulled the trigger as his dad reached for a camera.
It was his first time shooting a fully automatic machine gun, and the recoil of the weapon was too much for him. He lost control and fatally shooting himself in the head.
Now gun safety experts — and some gun enthusiasts at the club where the shooting happened — are wondering why such a young child was allowed to fire a weapon used in war.
#80 J babbled, “Nope! and Nope!”
So, with our form of gov’t the majority can’t make laws that everyone has to follow.
“Interesting” take on things.
Thanks for clarifying your muddled state of mind.
# 81 Paddy Cake the Ignorant Shit Talker
Why don’t you look up Constitutional Republic and try, REALLY TRY, to understand how it functions.
It is easy to combat your posts because you are so predictable and ignorant.
#82 J
So please show where laws cannot be made by the majority that apply to everyone… Waiting…
Paddy is a troll.
# 83 Paddy the Ignorant Shit Talker
When I said try and understand, I guess I expecting too much from you. With every post you increasingly display your incredible ignorance.
Let me know when you understand how Constitutional Republic works.
#85 J, “Let me know when you understand how Constitutional Republic works.”
Well, according to you it has nothing to do with the passing of laws by a majority of Congress. What Constitution did YOU read?
Sorry, you got cornered and couldn’t answer a simple Q as you know you’d subsequently be owned.
Sad, sad, sad.
# 84 Olo Baggins of Bywater said,
“Paddy is a troll.”
No, that would be Sea Troll (see posts above)
WOW,
a parent that DIDNT TEACH the 2 handed method to HOLD A GUN…
The parent DIDNT BRACE THE KID, for a first FIRING of the gun.
The parent WANT SMART and set the gun for BURST FIRE..or EVEN single fire so the kid could get USED TO THE KICK.
# 86 Paddy Cake the Ignorant Shit Talker
“Well, according to you it has nothing to do with the passing of laws by a majority of Congress.”
LOL I never said anything even close to that. Nice try even though that too is not how it works especially when the law violates the constitution or the President vetoes. Therefore even a Majority of the Congress still does not rule. DUMBASS!!!!
Why don’t you learn about a Constitutional Republic and get back to me?
“What Constitution did YOU read?”
The U.S. Constitution. Apparently you haven’t bothered.
“Sorry, you got cornered and couldn’t answer a simple Q as you know you’d subsequently be owned.”
LOL ROTFLMAO
ORIGINAL QUESTIONS:
“Like you I think the majority rules. Right?” – PCIST #76
“So, if the majority want slavery then it is legal and moral. You agree, right?” – PCIST #76
The answer to both of those questions is and always will be NO!!!!
Paddy,
What is sick here is that you mock the death of an 8 year old child. The little boy didn’t know any better, that is what his parents were for. That is a life that was cut short in the most senseless of ways.
Our founding fathers probably couldn’t fathom in their wildest dreams what sort of powerful firearm technology we have today. I would have a very hard time believing that they would think an UZI in the hands of laypeople would ever be appropriate.
I feel sorry for you that you clearly have no empathy and feel no sadness for this tragedy.
#14 – When Obama comes to “spread my wealth”
#90,
the cannon our founding fathers had were orders of magnitude more powerfull than an uzi.
#68,
In this case, the gun did not kill the kid, the kid killed the kid, the “parent” assuming responsibility for the kid, therefore killed the kid.
Also, a hunting rifle is not so different from an uzi, the difference being that the hunting rifle is more accurate, more powerfull (read deadly), and likely to hit more targets than the uzi for any given amount of ammunition.
#58, Ah Yea,
Maybe I picked the wrong subject to be sarcastic about.
Remember, in WWI the Arabs fought against the British Empire and lost. The result was the partitioning of the old Ottoman empire into the Middle East States as they are now.
Nope. The Arab population were on the British side and fought against the Ottoman Empire alongside the British. Have you ever heard of Lawrence of Arabia?
When the Arab population fought against the British in WWII, it was because the British were as arrogant as the former Turks had been. The Arabs had not been invited to discuss the partitioning of their land into all the various countries in the Mid-East today. Thus the British and French didn’t last past WWII.
Examining the above article further, …
One assassination (or attempt) does not make a conspiracy or is evident of a national trend.
I still appreciate your wise, well made arguments. It is so much more pleasant than the battle of wits with the unarmed enemy “J” is having. Aahh, but if only you knew what you were talking about.
In my third world country the adult ‘supervisor’ would be in jail immediately and processed by murder. In the USA this is only a ‘unfortunated incident’ and the adult will have his UZI back.
#92, Jumping to the defense of the bleeding hearts, I doubt there were many parents letting their kids play with cannons, though.
However, I do agree that this ultimate responsibility is on the part of the parents.
My first gun was a BB gun. My second was a single-shot .410 breakdown. And my third was a double-barrel .20 gauge breakdown. This was over a period of six years.
My father knew what a semi-automatic was capable of and wanted to make sure I knew how to handle a weapon before I got my first high-capacity rifle.
#90 Stephanie said, blah, blah.
They let you out of the institution? Oh, you can answer the question I asked of you now.
As a gun owner, and oft described gun nut, all I have to say is… WTF were this kids parents thinking? An Uzi? Small children shouldn’t be handling automatic weapons. Teach your kid firearm safety… teach your kid how to shoot a rifle, but wtf were you thinking when you handed him an uzi?
Paddy-O is correct, and not a troll.
Why does J always end up with “I STUDYD IT SO KALL ME WHEN U LERN IT DUMBASS!!” instead of like, actually presenting an argument.
Cue J calling me a dumbass in 3… 2… 1…
#98 brm – Allow me ‘J’….brm you are a dumbass.
In a few years, we can have the same arguments about desk top gene splicing tools.
“Teach your children how to splice genes only with benign characteristic and always in a positive air flow laminar console. You should advise them not to combine genomes of known disease vectors until they get to High School and receive the proper training.”
Yep, because you know, viruses don’t kill people, people do.