What kinda moron lets his 8 year old son shoot an Uzi?
 

http://news.aol.com/article/boy-8-ki...858x1200720002


Poor kid. The father should be chucked in jail for a long time.
(and yes the gun club too!)

Yeah, because the gun club plays no part in this blame game.

Seriously messed up. I grew up around guns since my dad is a collector and gunsmith, and he was all about teaching me how to use them - but SAFELY and certianly not beyond my abilities.

I was 15 before he let me use an automatic weapon (an AK-47). Even at that age the recoil surprised me but I knew what to expect and I had it well under control. For frick's sake, at 8 I still wasn't allowed to use anything bigger than a pellet gun!

Guns don't kill people, people who let 8 year olds use Uzi's kill people. :roll:

Retarded, that's all I can say. What the hell did they expect would happen? The age to use a gun is low enough as it; don't give automatic weapons to kids even younger than that, for f*ck's sake.

Couldn't have said it any better. I mean, exactly. What DID they think would happen? I mean, I don't wanna get into any pro or anti gun safety talk, but when you let a kid or anyone under the age of 16 into one of those things, you'd think they'd have a lot more safety precautions. At least a lot more supervision and security.

Just to counter the "Oh, that is so stupid"-circlejerk, I'm going to say this:

Job well done. Sure, it cost one kid his life, which is a tragedy beyond understanding, but on the plus side, it took one gunslinging moron off the shooting ranges. And the fewer of those we have, the safer we all live. And by "We" I mean americans, because they're the only ones dumb enough to still think that if they don't have a fully automatic 80mm flak gun dismounted from a gunship under their beds, the british will invade in a heartbeat.

They're going to eat you alive here, pal.

Anyway, I just loved the survey on that site:

And Anarky's the one who previously was moaning about the 'awful state' of the Forum (with the minor problems there were). Now is basically being a problem himself.

This is you in a nutshell. It is stupid. You're trying too hard.

Again, this is why we can't have nice things.

We've done a terrible job raising them, Ai.

God, that's terrible. What a horrible parent.

You don't think I know that? :cry:

I sometimes think of you as my Drome Dad.

Ai being my Drome Mum.

So while you don't want dead kids, you're not in favour of, say, a bit stricter gun laws?

You know, we have pretty lax gun-control over here too. As long as you've got no criminal record, you can get everything up to an army-grade assault-rifle. And that you get under an extended background check only, read you've had to be or still have to be in the military. Uzis? No chance. But you can get shotguns.

I mean, seriously, as a sort of "I don't understand your culture"-question: What are the americans afraid of so that they have to be better armed than most countries' armies? Or what is the reasoning behind "We must have more guns! Bigger guns!"

Who are you talking to?

Probably not the guy who's from the netherlands.

I'm talking to the US-Americans present in this thread. Obviously, the outrage is great, but still the USA cling to their "Oh, you want a gun? Sure, have three."-policy, which is just something I don't understand. I know that there's an article in the constitution that basically says something about the right to defend themselves, but I honestly don't think that they meant "Go and buy an Uzi and then some" with it.

Alright, I only asked because you didn't quote anyone and seemingly brought up gun rights out of nowhere.

For the record, I totally agree with you on the gun control issue, though it's probably best not to get into that subject here.

This wasn't posted to have some political thing argued. So please don't get into it.

I don't really want to get into the whole "LET'S SHOOT EVERYONE!" contra "Peace, man... it's totally the way, man..." thing. I just honestly don't understand why it is or should be legal to buy an Uzi. Or the whole "My God, this is horrible and should never happen! Gun control? Hell no!"-thinking.