Boy, 8, shot to death in Mass. gun show accidentWESTFIELD, Mass. – An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair.
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 Lt. Lawrence Valliere said.
The boy was with a certified instructor and "was shooting the weapon down range when the force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury," a police statement said. Police called it a "self-inflicted accidental shooting."
2nd Amendment or not, in WHAT bizarre universe is it appropriate for an eight year old to be firing off a fully automatic Israeli killing machine?
Statistics show time and time again that gun-owners are far more likely to see one of their own family members killed than an intruder.
I wonder what the parents of this poor boy think about the importance of 'home defence' now?
2 comments:
That is heartbreaking! Oh my!
While we are at it, lets get rid of cars as well.
While I agree an 8 year old shouldn't have been touching such a weapon, lets not use that as a defense of getting rid of all guns.
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