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

[Mecha Cow]

It's a moot point because even with current US gun laws, the kid still wasn't legally allowed to handle a firearm. Letting a child use a (live) gun under any circumstance is stupid and irresponsible, and that's really all there is to it.

[Jon]

That's not what I was meaning. As you were making it sound like someone owned the gun and was letting the kid use it (like the perverbial backyard shoot). Instead of a gunshow. So stop the attitude, and mistaking people's posts for something else.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

It's a moot point because even with current US gun laws, the kid still wasn't legally allowed to handle a firearm. Letting a child use a (live) gun under any circumstance is stupid and irresponsible, and that's really all there is to it.

Want to know of an even worse example? A few years ago there were several preteen children (with adult copilots, but still...) competing for the record of world's youngest pilot. One boy made it safely, but he had to have special extensions placed on the pedals and other controls for his task because of his small size.

Then came a much more publicized example, where an even younger girl was trying to fly a small airplane-and crashed, killing her and her adult copilot companion. There was a big outcry about this practice in the news media and among the public about how stupid this whole idea was to begin with, and presumably the whole youngest pilot competition idea was kiboshed after that.

The girl in the news photo was obviously very young and small, and showed her wearing a cap with the message "WOMEN FLY," though a lot of people commented on the fact that a young girl is not an adult woman.

I assume at least some of you remember this story.

[Mecha Cow]

While these accidents that happen very, very little, they are the main cause of the knee-jerk reactions for gun-control. Without threading too deeply into the subject, it might be interesting for people that don't entirely understand the gun issue to give this a look. (If you've got the time that is.) In a nutshell, firearms are too engrained into this society to the point where trying to get rid of them would only make the country a less stable place.

Well, to be fair a lot of people genuinely are in favor of gun control, and like I noted earlier this case was an accident that has little to do with the actual subject anyway.

Also, while that video is nice, it can hardly be called objective. There certainly are valid arguments (and some not-so-valid ones as well) in favor of gun rights but I don't think it's fair at all to dismiss the arguments against it. This stuff goes both ways.