Nice Plant #7: Get me off of this planet

[trixR4kids]

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Apparently someone listened when Ted Nugent said "Machine Guns for the children!".

[goldy_331]

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We have a new Darwin award winner.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1917858

At the "Arizona Last Stop Restaurant and Gun Range." It was for Mr. Vacca.

[SJHovey]

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The War on Poverty was going petty well until we defunded it. The Gini coefficient went down from the 30's through the ramp up to Vietnam and the American middle class was created. It's soared since, with the American middle class in being destroyed.

The deep, dark secret of the social programs of the New Deal and the Great Society is that they worked.

Yes and no.

They worked (and still work) at providing a basic level of security blanket for those in need, or for those at the bottom of the economy.

But they face(d) two problems. First, no government established program/benefit ever remains static. It can and will expand. It's simply the nature of all government programs, whether sponsored or promoted by the left or right.

Second, changing demographics in the form of population bubbles place stressors on the programs that didn't exist in the 50's, 60's or 70's.

The second problem could probably be handled, but not coupled with the first. Since no one wants (read: has the political will) to address the issues, we have the silliness that is.

[Gurtholfin]

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We have a new Darwin award winner.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1917858

Yes, because just what every 9 year old girl needs is a tutorial with an uzi.

Thanks mom and dad for years of therapy!


Morons.

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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Maybe if there was a good guy with an Uzi there, this would've been prevented.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Yep, parents need to be drawing the line somewhere. 9 year-olds should be instructed with pellet guns, not Uzis.

[ScoobyDoo]

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Yep, parents need to be drawing the line somewhere. 9 year-olds should be instructed with pellet guns, not Uzis.

I'm more appalled that the gun range allowed this to happen. Some parents are invariably stupid. The guy instructing her and the range is supposed to know better.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I'm more appalled that the gun range allowed this to happen. Some parents are invariably stupid. The guy instructing her and the range is supposed to know better.

Agreed on all counts.

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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Yep, parents need to be drawing the line somewhere. 9 year-olds should be instructed with pellet guns, not Uzis.

Pictured: Her father

[Priceless]

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We have a new Darwin award winner.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1917858

This guy doesn't even get nominated for the Darwin Award because someone else killed him.
We also don't know if he already had kids, which would preclude him from a Darwin Award anyway.

I don't know why people are upset that she was nine and using an Uzi. It seems like a natural progression.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/201...the_gun_a.html

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I don't know why people are upset that she was nine and using an Uzi. It seems like a natural progression.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/201...the_gun_a.html

The boy and his family apparently didn’t realize that a shell had been left in the gun.

*facepalm*

Rule #0: Is the gun pointed in a safe direction?
Rule #1: Is the gun loaded?
Rule #2: Is the safety on?

A 5 year-old is incapable of understanding Rule #0, or that something as seemingly small as a .22 caliber bullet can be fatal. Thus, why 5 year-olds should never handle guns.

[ScoobyDoo]

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Agreed on all counts.

You may agree with me but the owner of the range doesn't.

Sam Scarmardo, the operator of the range, told a local television station, KTNV, that the girl was old enough to shoot the high-powered weapon, adding that the user must be at least 8 years old. “We instruct kids as young as 5 in .22 rifles,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/us...88400000&_r=3&

[trixR4kids]

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What's sad is that this is gonna scar her for the rest of her life. If I had to guess, the family wanted to teach her at a young age how to responsibly handle a firearm and to be comfortable with one. If anything this will probably have the opposite effect as far as the latter.

[ScoobyDoo]

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What's sad is that this is gonna scar her for the rest of her life. If I had to guess, the family wanted to teach her at a young age how to responsibly handle a firearm and to be comfortable with one. If anything this will probably have the opposite effect as far as the latter.

The parents clearly didn't care about that. She'll need therapy for a long time to come. I bet the parents don't care about that either.

[Gurtholfin]

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What's sad is that this is gonna scar her for the rest of her life. If I had to guess, the family wanted to teach her at a young age how to responsibly handle a firearm and to be comfortable with one. If anything this will probably have the opposite effect as far as the latter.

BS

You don't start with an Uzi and you certainly don't teach a kid gun safety with a weapon he or she is extremely unlikely to ever have/use.

This was for kicks and a video op.