27 August 2014

Oops is, yet again, a gub term


The BBC has an article about an idiot who should've known better but paid the price for his stupidity:
A nine year-old girl killed her shooting instructor by accident while being shown how to use a high-powered submachine gun. The instructor was giving the girl a lesson at a shooting range in Arizona when the recoil from the automatic fire caused her to lose control of the Uzi.
Charles Vacca, 39, (video, at left) was shot in the head and died after being airlifted to a hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The girl was at the shooting range with her parents, who filmed the lesson.
The footage shows the instructor coaching her as she fires a single shot at a target at the Last Stop shooting range in White Hills, Arizona.
The Uzi then appears to be switched to automatic as the girl pulls the trigger and loses her grip of the weapon.
The video, edited and released by the Mojave County Sheriff's office, ends abruptly before the instructor is shot.
The website of the shooting range, called Bullets and Burgers, says children aged eight and older can shoot a weapon if they are accompanied by a parent and an instructor.
Range operator Sam Scarmardo told The Associated Press the rule was industry standard, but the range is reviewing its safety procedures.
Rico says there are very few people who can handle shooting full-auto, and nine-year-old girls ain't one of them...

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