It’s amazing how stupid some parents can be. I can’t imagine ever giving a submachine gun to a primary school child. I have a nephew aged 8, and I won’t even give him kitchen knives because I think they are too sharp for him. I couldn’t imagine seeing him with a gun, or worse, a submachine gun that can fire hundreds of rounds per minute.
I hope guns don’t ever become that common in Indonesia.
Gene
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New questions have been raised about US gun laws after a boy aged eight shot himself in the head with a submachine gun at a Massachusetts weapons fair.
Christopher Bizilj died after losing control of a recoiling Uzi submachine gun as he fired it at a pumpkin. Both the boy’s father and an instructor were present when the accident happened on Sunday at the gun show in Westfield. State legislators are now considering drafting a bill banning under-21s from firing automatic weapons, reports say.
The boy’s father, Charles Bizilj, said he was 10ft (3m) behind Christopher when the accident happened at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo. “This is a horrible event, a horrible travesty, and I really don’t know why it happened,” said Mr Bizilj, a hospital director from Ashford, Connecticut.
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Death at show fuels US gun debate
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