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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 07:40 AM Aug 2015

Petition to ban kids with Uzis offers different picture of US gun owners

Atlanta — By a purely political calculus, the online petition launched this week to outlaw children’s access to automatic weapons has limited prospects. Efforts to rein in the use of automatic weapons by children already failed in two state legislatures last year.

But it matters, some experts and activists say, because of the people behind the petition and their message.

Sponsoring the petition is the family of Charlie Vacca, the instructor killed one year ago by a 9-year-old New Jersey girl in pink shorts when she lost control of an Uzi rifle at a popular Arizona gun range. And the message is no broadside against Americans’ Second Amendment rights, but what the family calls a "common sense" appeal to gun owners and non-gun owners alike.

“Laws say that children can’t drink, can’t drive, can’t vote. But they can shoot fully automatic assault weapons. That hasn’t changed,” Mr. Vacca’s oldest daughter, Elizabeth, says on the petition.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/0825/Petition-to-ban-kids-with-Uzis-offers-different-picture-of-US-gun-owners
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Petition to ban kids with Uzis offers different picture of US gun owners (Original Post) SecularMotion Aug 2015 OP
The Uzi isn't a rifle gejohnston Aug 2015 #1
Ah, the usual techno babble about gunz. Oh! the author made a mistake labeling flamin lib Aug 2015 #4
Thats an old one. beevul Aug 2015 #5
If you are in to banning stuff, know your terms. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #6
I think the Vaccas know all the terms and they are the ones sponsoring flamin lib Aug 2015 #8
The Journalists' Guide to Firearms Identification is needed. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #9
The problem was not the gun. Hangingon Aug 2015 #10
Post removed Post removed Aug 2015 #2
Think bloomy is behind this one also??? ileus Aug 2015 #3
I see the alert jihadis have been busy. beevul Aug 2015 #7
Yep Duckhunter935 Aug 2015 #11

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
1. The Uzi isn't a rifle
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 07:54 AM
Aug 2015

and the problem with the micro Uzi and the girl was more to do with her upper body strength, or lack of, and the gun's light weight than her age. The instructor should have known that and was an idiot for standing where he was and not telling her how to fire in bursts. If she really wanted to fire a machine gun, they should have provided a heavier gun mounted on a tripod or bipod.

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
4. Ah, the usual techno babble about gunz. Oh! the author made a mistake labeling
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 09:45 AM
Aug 2015

a whatzit as a whozit! Now we can ignore the whole point of the article.

That gets so fucking tiresome.

But tell me, what do your moles in the psyops group Moms Demand Action tell you these days?

 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
5. Thats an old one.
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 12:24 PM
Aug 2015
Ah, the usual techno babble about gunz. Oh! the author made a mistake labeling

a whatzit as a whozit! Now we can ignore the whole point of the article.

That gets so fucking tiresome.


I guess you'd be more comfortable at the point in humanities past, when getting to the bottom of things, knowing the facts of things, the why and the how of things, was considered heresy.

Maybe in the future you can shorten your posts by just saying 'heretic' or 'blasphemer'.

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
8. I think the Vaccas know all the terms and they are the ones sponsoring
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 04:40 PM
Aug 2015

the petition. Besides I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the guy who believes that MDA is a psyops organization and claims to have moles inside the organization.

Hangingon

(3,075 posts)
10. The problem was not the gun.
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 05:53 PM
Aug 2015

The late Mr. Vacca was the problem. He gave the child the gun. He did not maintain control. He put himself in a dangerous position. Sorry for the family but the law is not necessary.

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