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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 1398743" data-attributes="member: 33372">Leonard Pitts Jr.: U.S. on the dumber side when it comes to gunsLeonard Pitts Jr.6:40 p.m. EDT September 1, 2014Leonard Pitts Jr.: America is exceptional, but sometimes lack of good sense brings tragedy.Sometimes you read a sentence and you think to yourself: only here, only us.Here&#039;s one such sentence.&quot;A 9-year-old girl from New Jersey accidentally shot and killed her instructor with an Uzi submachine gun while he stood to her left side, trying to guide her.&quot;That&#039;s from a New York Times account of the death of 39-year-old Charles Vacca, who worked for the Last Stop shooting range in White Hills, Ariz. He died Monday when his preteen student lost control of the Uzi. Apparently, the gun was in &quot;repeat fire&quot; mode, the recoil lifted the muzzle, the little girl couldn&#039;t master it and Vacca was struck in the head.The child and her family, who have not been identified, were vacationing last week in nearby Las Vegas and had signed up for a package deal offered by the gun range. It included a tour of Hoover Dam, a hamburger lunch, an optional helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon and the chance to fire a range of powerful weapons, including sniper rifles, grenade launchers and machine guns. Everything was going fine until, as the Times put it, the &quot;adventure went horribly wrong.&quot;{Text edited out. Copying and pasting an entire article, story or any other copyrighted materials here is a no-no because that&#039;s AGAINST COPYRIGHT LAW! It&#039;s okay to post small excerpts and/or your own comments and a link to the original work. If you find copyright laws too restrictive feel free to start a thread in the Current Events forum debating the merits of Copyright laws.Read more: <a href="http://www.browncafe.com/community/help/terms#tldr}" target="_blank">http://www.browncafe.com/community/help/terms#tldr}</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="728ups, post: 1398743, member: 33372"] [SIZE=6][B]Leonard Pitts Jr.: U.S. on the dumber side when it comes to guns[/B][/SIZE] Leonard Pitts Jr.6:40 p.m. EDT September 1, 2014 [SIZE=5][B]Leonard Pitts Jr.: America is exceptional, but sometimes lack of good sense brings tragedy.[/B][/SIZE] Sometimes you read a sentence and you think to yourself: only here, only us. Here's one such sentence. "A 9-year-old girl from New Jersey accidentally shot and killed her instructor with an Uzi submachine gun while he stood to her left side, trying to guide her." That's from a New York Times account of the death of 39-year-old Charles Vacca, who worked for the Last Stop shooting range in White Hills, Ariz. He died Monday when his preteen student lost control of the Uzi. Apparently, the gun was in "repeat fire" mode, the recoil lifted the muzzle, the little girl couldn't master it and Vacca was struck in the head. The child and her family, who have not been identified, were vacationing last week in nearby Las Vegas and had signed up for a package deal offered by the gun range. It included a tour of Hoover Dam, a hamburger lunch, an optional helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon and the chance to fire a range of powerful weapons, including sniper rifles, grenade launchers and machine guns. Everything was going fine until, as the Times put it, the "adventure went horribly wrong." [COLOR=#660000]{[B]Text edited out.[/B] Copying and pasting an entire article, story or any other copyrighted materials here is a no-no because that's AGAINST COPYRIGHT LAW! It's okay to post small excerpts and/or your own comments and a link to the original work. If you find copyright laws too restrictive feel free to start a thread in the Current Events forum debating the merits of Copyright laws. Read more: [url]http://www.browncafe.com/community/help/terms#tldr}[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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