What Baffles Your Brain Today?

[Chin Strapped]

I don't know whether to laugh, cringe or feel bad.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28948946

f*ck me sideways

 

[Kaishi]

This makes my blood boil on so many levels.

f*ck there not being needed a license to parent.

 

[Friday]

She got off 2 rounds in single fire with not a damn thing going wrong. Clearly they didn't show the last fully automatic mistake... But this looks like a freak accident.

 

[atilla]

f*cked up on all levels. I've taught my son and my daughters how to handle firearms safely. The instructor f*cked up. He should've been behind the kid. Any of you guys fired an uzi on full auto? I hope this don't turn into another anti-gun, bullshit, whinney ass, f*cktard campaign to ban guns in America, but I know it will......guns kill people, just like using an ink pen to write causes people to misspell words. f*cktards.

 

[Sarg]

Chill! Till! It's a known, the instructor should have never been made an instructor. This is so nutz, it almost sounds as if too many beers crossed the bar. What does the guy say? You can't fix stupid.

There's a place in AZ called Gunsite. It's run by some guy that's a spec ops type and you can't even go there without special permission from him. By the time you're done, the M1911 is an extension of your arm. I can just imagine what he's saying right now, because this not only reflects on the various instruction courses, but adds fuel to the anti-gunners.

Giving a child a Class III, nutz!

Sarg

 

[dutchiedelta]

A tragedy caused by a mistake. That girl has to live with a burden she will never cast off.

Only answer is keep paying attention.Never leave a detail ignored. Teach teach teach.

 

[Friday]

campaign to ban guns in America.

Yep. Yah know it will.

I just wish people would pay attention to countries where firearms are banned. Bombs, fire, and knives. Shudder. It's not like we don't have them in this country, but most people don't think to use them.

Never fired an Uzi. I was instructed on an old school AK47 by a kid that looked 7, maybe 10, tops down south in a tight spot. That was some f*cked up shit. Kids are smart, though. 4 rounds. You hear more that 4, you run. They can't hit shit. You don't shoot more than 4. You don't hit shit. Okay kid.

 

[OldDoorGunner]

OK I'll let the cat out of the bag. I was an NRA instructor in 4 disciplines, also a Class C Rifle Coach. I did this for about 10 years. I quit when I could no longer teach the NRA course BS. Also I get a letter from the NRA that says, we no longer have the Class C Rifle Coach program.....

So I agree with what I have read here. One always stays behind the shooter. I'd bet this guy was being the big shot to the young girl and her parents. Guess on my part......I do feel bad for the young girl and I hope she is told she did not do anything wrong and it was not her fault.....

I f*cking hate this kind of stupid shit........

Edit to add: I am so f*cking pissed that this young girl has to deal with this............f*ck....

J R

 

[Kaishi]

In agreement on 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' in general and all of that nice stuff, and I don't want to talk over Americans on America stuff, just really not feeling happy this shit has more space to happen with morons having access to weapons.

But then it's not like that kind of recklesness can be banned anywhere. So yeah, education, education, education, preach.

Still don't know that a nine year old kid not in need of her survival needs a gun in hand for any reason. It's show off macho bullshit on her parents' side and f*cking ruining her life.

Anyway I'll take a pause off this thread I suppose, I'm too angry with these parents and too thinking of personal shit on the matters. Cold showers'll do my head good.

 

[dutchiedelta]

Kaishi it might be machismo from the parents.
They might live in a dangerous neighbourhood.
They might be wealthy and a target.
We don't know so hope you don't get too worked up about the parents.

 

[Deleted member 43454]

That girl will probably grow up and become an assassin now. 9 years old. Jesus.
Well, her parent's must have money if she's attending anything class 3.
Hopefully she can get the help she needs.

 

[Friday]

@Kaishi It's not that they necessarilly live in a war zone (although gang lands in certain cities are more dangerous than some wars zones I've been in), but it is a safety thing from my perspective as a parent.

Because people do have firearms.

So, as a parent, I needed to make them as exciting as a 2,000 pound battering ram that can go 150mph. Aka, a car. Toddlers will often accidentally start vehicles to disastrous effect, and young children dash into busy streets...but we teach kids, day in and out, what to do and not do with cars. How to behave around them, how to behave when others have them, and later how to use them as safely as possible.

Most of the shootings in this country are accidental. A huge number of those shootings are kids playing around. Either out of ignorance, or a combo of sneaking+ignorance. They're never taught proper weapons handling. They aren't allowed to handle them so they use them in secret. It's not farm kids who use rifles for hunting and scaring off coyotes & bears & big cats & gators that are shooting themselves. It's (usually city) kids sneaking into mommy or daddy's gun locker and getting them out to play with in secret, or show their friends (just like porn and other taboo items). The only experience they have, and only rules they know are from TV & video games.

My son has been in 2 incidents with firearms outside of my control that I know of. His stepfamily was spinning .22s around their fingers like cowboys (f*cking idiots!!!) and he went 4 walls away and sat behind a book case when they wouldn't stop when he asked them (also wouldn't clear them for him, assholes!). And a friend took him to see his dad's pistol in secret. He's 12. I've been teaching him what to do in these situations, but it's still partially just luck no one was injured (especially as one of the .22s did discharge). The other part is that he knows "Always treat every weapon as if it were loaded, keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are prepared to fire, never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot, always know what's behind your target."... As well as "If you wanna go shooting? Just ask. We'll head out to the range. Nothing taboo or 'wanna touch it???' About it.

I can't keep my son safe, but I can teach him how to protect himself. With firearms, in is country, it's not about using them to protect himself. It's about protecting him from them. Counter ignorance with knowledge. Counter exciting with normal. Until breaking weapons handling rules sounds about as "fun" as running into traffic. Only something an idiot or a baby does.