Girl who accidentally shot instructor with Uzi felt gun was too much for her

The 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot and killed her firing range instructor with an Uzi last week told her mother immediately afterward that the gun was too powerful for her and that it had hurt her shoulder, according to a Mohave County Sheriff's Office report released Tuesday.

The family huddled around the girl, fearing she was injured, and did not realize that instructor Charles Vacca, 39, was wounded until another employee ran over, according to the report. After realizing what had occurred, the girl's parents immediately removed her and their other two children from the property and brought them to the nearby restaurant so they wouldn't see what happened, the report states.

The New Jersey family had been vacationing in Las Vegas and on Aug. 25 was shuttled to Bullets and Burgers, the firing range at Arizona Last Stop property in White Hills, Ariz. The family had taken a ride on a monster truck before heading to the shooting range, according to the report.

The girl's father was the first to fire the weapon, identified as a Mini Uzi 9mm, and then it was the girl's turn. With the girl's mother recording, Vacca showed the 9-year-old how to stand and shoot the gun, allowing her to fire a few rounds.

At this point Vacca switched the gun into its automatic setting, according to a deputy who would later view the mother's video.

veya_victaous wrote:Bullets and Burgers

says it all really

Are you Sure Idiocracy isn't already in reality ?

Original Quill wrote:
How should the girl be charged?  As an adult?

Original Quill wrote:How should the girl be charged? As an adult?

victorisnotamused wrote:Over here, granted such a situation is unlikely to ever arise, however if it did, two things are clear.
1 the child would NOT be charged as an adult...indeed as far as I'm aware that CANT be done, the "age of criminal responsibility" is quite clear cut. and she is below that.
2 it is unlikely, given what we know of the incident that any charges would in the end be applicable anyway, unless these were against the range by the H&S board...It is likely ..if the instructor was "self employed/freelance his death would be considered "misadventure"

Ben_Reilly wrote:A number of people have said that it shouldn't be the law that stopped these people from handing a fully automatic weapon over to a nine-year-old, and I'm actually inclined to agree on that point. We shouldn't need to have a law because people should know better than to do such a thing.

I'd venture to say at least half the laws out there were written either because of idiots or because of people who lack whatever it is the rest of us have that keep us from being total dicks ...