Nine year old kills gun instructor with Uzi

[dead0man]

People under, say, 16 shouldn't be able to shoot automatic weapons.  Even on a range, even with parental approval and a shooting instructor.


You may now go back to making jokes.

[dead0man]

No one is making jokes.

There were 8 posts before mine, 5 of those were jokes.  You're not making jokes, true, but there are plenty of people that are.

[dead0man]

Children under sixteen should not be allowed to use guns, period.

12 year old children have been shooting .22s since forever with few problems.

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Automatic weapons are virtually banned.  Very few people die each year from them, there is no good reason to make them even more banned.  You'll never be able to ban semi-autos, thank Og.

[dead0man]

There's no reason all but a handful of civilians should be so heavily armed; this isn't Somalia.

Very very few people are "so heavily armed"...and most of those are companies like the one in the story, the vast majority don't have 9 year old children killing instructors.  It's not easy to get an automatic weapon license and the guns themselves are stupid expensive.  The relatively cheap Uzi starts at $500ish for a crappy one shooting .22lr rounds.  A nice 9mm version will run you into the several of thousands.  Something more fun like a M249 SAW start at 8 large and go up from there.