Video of kid accidentally shooting self will be shown at trial. - Polidicks

[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy18;27235814]I think the only person at fault here is the kid[/QUOTE] The fault is the parent for allowing an 8 year old to shoot the gun in the first place.. He should have at least held the gun with him for extra support. [b]Edit:[/b] If i was given a gun at 8, i probably would have said 'Coooool!' and tried shooting it too. Your a kid and you don't know any better.

[QUOTE=joshdasmif;27236000]I don't know how any of you could possibly say this was the kids fault, the child obviously had never handled a gun of this calibre before and I am unsure if he ever handled a gun before the people you want to blame is the gun show for letting him use the gun and the parents for letting him use the gun as well. It is involuntary manslaughter for both parties. The child had no idea that the gun was going to recoil did he?[/QUOTE] It isn't the gun show's responsibility. The parents paid, so the gun show did what they asked.

So the gun had enough recoil to spin a 180 vertical degrees before he could stop shooting? WHAT?

Great, not 20 posts into the thread and we already have a gun control argument. Fuck.

The real question is why there was a full-auto capable gun, those thing don't just grow on trees they eat trees with all the paper work needed, and they let an 8 year old handle it.

[QUOTE=Numidium;27236494]So the gun had enough recoil to spin a 180 vertical degrees before he could stop shooting? WHAT?[/QUOTE] It was an uzi in the hands of an 8 year old. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Sexy.EXE;27236688]The real question is why there was a full-auto capable gun, those thing don't just grow on trees they eat trees with all the paper work needed, and they let an 8 year old handle it.[/QUOTE] Because it was a gunshow.

[QUOTE=alphatwo;27236627]Great, not 20 posts into the thread and we already have a gun control argument. Fuck.[/QUOTE] It was inevitable.

[QUOTE=Numidium;27236494]So the gun had enough recoil to spin a 180 vertical degrees before he could stop shooting? WHAT?[/QUOTE] It happened fast, what the fuck is so hard to understand about this? ITT: People who don't understand basic elementary every-day physics. And to think this is a forum that spawned from a physics sandbox game. Have you learned nothing? Imagine this [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM2jRrv0dCM[/media] Now imagine held it lower so that it pointed at his chin and imagine it was still firing.

[QUOTE=Numidium;27236494]So the gun had enough recoil to spin a 180 vertical degrees before he could stop shooting? WHAT?[/QUOTE] An eight year old kid can not control such amount of recoil. Unless the parents taught the boy better, which was clearly not the case. Or better yet, not let an 8 year old get the gun in the first place

People under 18 and firearms, only in america.

And yet another case showing why you shouldn't let your kids playing with guns

[QUOTE=Prismatex;27235276] maybe because he was 8 and didn't know better[/QUOTE] He was purely working on instinct. Uzis are somewhat heavy, for an 8 year old (who doesn't live in the ghetto), its a heavy piece. So when he started firing it, he probably gripped too tight around the trigger and the recoil of it, his human instinct was to grab tight. Since it was going on a projected course that he did not know that would happen.

[img]http://www.free-jokes.info/pic/2.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00432/al-Qaeda_kids_682_432128a.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.websophist.com/Guns_KidsO.jpg[/img] [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uPzsiWdvLoQ/RgLiRVc1IPI/AAAAAAAAADA/B8CoTQ7CNGM/s400/cops+robbers.jpg[/img] [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uPzsiWdvLoQ/SxiFwNJnFQI/AAAAAAAAB9M/SMn1jmA8F5g/s400/totgun1.jpg[/img] Lol. They grow up so fast.

I'll bet ten bucks that just cause that fatty is a police officer he won't get into any trouble. Go-go flawless law system. :downs: [url=http://www.google.nl/search?q=cop+not+charged+guilty&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a]Click here if you're planning on rating me boxes and think your law system is all fair and balanced. [/url] [url=http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2010/10/08/former-lorain-cop-found-not-guilty-at-rape-trial/]Here too.[/url]

[img]http://www.websophist.com/Guns_KidsO.jpg[/img] She looks 20.

[QUOTE=Miskav;27237728]People under 18 and firearms, [b]only in america.[/b][/QUOTE] that is fucking HILARIOUS [img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01243/kids-with-guns_1243524i.jpg[/img]

wow these days is always has to be somebodys fault. it was nobodys fault, shit just happens.

[QUOTE=Miskav;27237728]People under 18 and firearms, only in america.[/QUOTE] Actually, when you think about it it's not that uncommon for other countries to give guns to children. Most militia groups recruit children since opposing soldiers aren't too wild on shooting back at children

[QUOTE=DogGunn;27235764]But then how are the stupid people going to protect themslves from "smart" people with guns?[/QUOTE] Or how are the smart people going to protect themselves from stupid people?

Great parenting.

Unfortunately the parents taught the kid right with semi automatic guns already, but he's never fired an automatic. So when he squeezed the trigger and didn't let go the recoil surprised him and he blew his brains out the back of his head. Dad dun goofed.

This is why I use Grip on all my guns.

[QUOTE=supersnail11;27235536]Well, yes, but it's the parents responsibility to keep their kids safe, and if they let them operate an uzi at 8, it's the parents fault. [b]The gun show was just supplying the gun.[/b][/QUOTE] To an 8-year-old. You don't see anything wrong with this?

Parents should never let children handle guns. Even with proper "training," a gun is not a toy for kids to handle. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Prismatex;27241384]To an 8-year-old. You don't see anything wrong with this?[/QUOTE] They likely supplied it to the parents, who then herfderfed it on to the child and said, 'go ahead Jimmy, squeeze away."

[QUOTE=Prismatex;27241384]To an 8-year-old. You don't see anything wrong with this?[/QUOTE] No. It's called a business.

I actually saw something like this happen in person before. I was in line getting ready to enter the building the gunshow was being held in when this kid who was leaving the building about 10 feet away from me pulled the slide back on some semi-automatic pistol, and when he let go it fired onto the asphalt at his feet and sprayed the inside of his legs with bits of shattered copper and lead. My guess is he was trying to be all cool and play with it "Like they do in the movies/games" without understanding how it actually works. The father wasn't even paying attention to him at the time, too busy talking to some one, standing behind and facing away from the kid. It all comes down to who educates the kid. Both of the fathers here failed horribly.

Does it mention whether the ones running the gun show handed the gun directly to the child, or whether they handed it to the parents who then gave it to the child?

That's really dumb. Here in Arkansas the people who run the gun shows are smart enough to not allow loose ammunition at them. Guns are never fired at gun shows here, there is no range to be used. Every gun brought in has to have some kind of locking mechanism (be it a zip-tie snaking through the bore and ejection port or a full gun lock). The parents are at fault here for not providing proper supervision during a highly dangerous activity. While I don't support the way that this show was run since I'm used to the ones here in Arkansas, it's their show and they're entitled to their own rules. It wouldn't hurt to add an age limit restriction for actual firing of the guns, however. IMO, this shouldn't be in court and the parents should have to live with their mistake rather than shoving the blame over to someone else and getting money for it.

This thread is seriously old, I believe so. Not old as in 5 years, but I know this has been here before. It's just too similar to that one thread about the kid with his Uzi's recoil making him shoot himself.

Oh wow, I wouldn't want to see a video like that :(