Boy, 8, fatally shoots self with Uzi at gun show [repost]

[eswat]

WESTFIELD, Mass. – With an instructor watching, an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair aimed an Uzi at a pumpkin and pulled the trigger as his dad reached for a camera.

It was his first time shooting a fully automatic machine gun, and the recoil of the weapon was too much for him. He lost control and fatally shot himself in the head.

Now gun safety experts — and some gun enthusiasts at the club where the shooting happened — are wondering why such a young child was allowed to fire a weapon used in war. Local, state and federal authorities are also investigating whether everyone involved had proper licenses or if anyone committed a criminal act.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081028/ap_on_re_us/boy_shoots_himself_15

 

[Soodmeg]

I am pretty sure we had this topic already.

 

[mykevermin]

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201664

 

[Bezerker]

Did the kid make it?

 

[mykevermin]

[quote name='Bezerker']Did the kid make it?[/QUOTE]

Are you:

1) Overlooking the "fatally shoots" part of the OP

or

2) Using traditional internet cynicism to mock that the poor kid never did, evidently, hit the pumpkin.

?

either way, I'm cool with it.

 

[senorwoohoo]

[quote name='Bezerker']Did the kid make it?[/QUOTE]

fatally shot himself in the head

 

[munch]

[quote name='senorwoohoo']fatally shot himself in the head[/QUOTE]

So you're saying he's going to be ok?

 

[senorwoohoo]

[quote name='munch']So you're saying he's going to be ok?[/QUOTE]



Yes.

 

[Strell]

This thread reminds me of this:

Lawyer> Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
Doctor> No.
Lawyer> Did you check for blood pressure?
Doctor> No.
Lawyer> Did you check for breathing?
Doctor> No.
Lawyer> So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
Doctor> No.
Lawyer> How can you be so sure, Doctor?
Doctor> Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Lawyer> But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?
Doctor> Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.

 

[Irukandji]

He aimed for the pumpkin but ended up hitting a melon.

 

[munch]

I don't get that one.

 

[crystalklear64]

wah wah wahhhhhhh

 

[MisterModest]

Is the pumpkin okay?

 

[bigdaddy]

I live a few towns away, Westfield is crazy shit hole, I don't know what they add to the water there.

However the kid was from CT, but the fact you can give an uzi to an 8 year old should prove that you should never have had kids in the first place.

 

[fieldkillah]

[quote name='bigdaddy']I live a few towns away, Westfield is crazy shit hole, I don't know what they add to the water there.

However the kid was from CT, but the fact you can give an uzi to an 8 year old should prove that you should never have had kids in the first place.[/quote]


I live close by too. Some of my buddies wanted to go to that show.

 

[JolietJake]

[quote name='Strell']This thread reminds me of this:

Lawyer> Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
Doctor> No.
Lawyer> Did you check for blood pressure?
Doctor> No.
Lawyer> Did you check for breathing?
Doctor> No.
Lawyer> So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
Doctor> No.
Lawyer> How can you be so sure, Doctor?
Doctor> Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Lawyer> But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?
Doctor> Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere. [/quote]
Oh Strellington.

 

[Cracka]

real question is did others get to shoot the sweet ass uzi after the kid or did he ruin it for everybody.


jk

 

[lordwow]

Heads will probably roll over this.

 

[JolietJake]

Oh so we're on head jokes now.

That's no way to get ahead in life.