Saw this in todays paper.
Now, I'll preface this with saying something that I always say when the subject is on firearms...I'm not anti-gun. I have no issues with people owning them. I do take issue though, with people who are negligent with them. In this case, I'd have to say that someone wasn't doing something that they should have been. I say this, because if we look at the opening paragraph, it states that the gun was on the safest possible setting. If that was the case, it seems they didn't take into consideration anything else, such as what we see in this part:
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.
Eight-year-old Christopher Bizilj died after accidentally shooting himself in the head in what was supposed to be among the safest possible settings for youngsters to handle firearms.
The third-grader from Ashford, a well-liked "all-American boy," was attending a "Machine Gun Shoot & Firearms Expo" on Sunday at the long-established Westfield Sportsman's Club in Massachusetts. While shooting, he was supervised by a trained professional and within sight of his father, Dr. Charles Bizilj, the medical director of emergency and critical care at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford.
Now, I'll preface this with saying something that I always say when the subject is on firearms...I'm not anti-gun. I have no issues with people owning them. I do take issue though, with people who are negligent with them. In this case, I'd have to say that someone wasn't doing something that they should have been. I say this, because if we look at the opening paragraph, it states that the gun was on the safest possible setting. If that was the case, it seems they didn't take into consideration anything else, such as what we see in this part:
"The weapon was loaded and ready to fire," Westfield police Lt. Hipolito Nunez said. "The 8-year-old victim had the Uzi and as he was firing the weapon, the front end of the weapon went up with the [recoil] and he ended up receiving a round in his head."
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.