9 Year Old with an Uzi!?!

Sometimes I don't understand Americans. Sometimes I understand them all too well.

I get the fear based society that you've built that keeps you clutching your Glocks and your AR-15s. I get that you rationalize it away with ironic claims of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness even though none of these things is found at the barrel of a gun. I've learned that the right to bear arms within the context of a well-regulated militia has come to mean something else along the lines of profits for arms dealers who have become priests in the temple of the NRA.

I get it. And, as a Canadian, I understand your fear that we might come and kick your ass again. I get it.

If that's the country you want and the life you think you need to live then have at it. Just leave your weapons at home when you come to our safe and peaceful streets where our annual gun violence statistics equal an average night in Chicago and we'll be savvy.

What I don't get is putting an Uzi in the hands of a 9 year old.

Sad. Tragic. Unfortunate. Accident. These are the words that  I've been reading and hearing over the past couple days.

Bullshit. The word that should be plastered on everything from the newspaper headlines, to the priest's sermon, to the firearms instructor's gravestone, to the papers that Child Protective Service's agent brings when they take this child from her parents:

Stupid.

Stupid instructor. Stupid parents. Stupid business. Stupid gun lobby. Stupid media. Stupid country.

If you can't see, beforehand, that PUTTING AN UZI INTO THE HANDS OF A FUCKING NINE YEAR OLD GIRL is a bad idea. Well then, you're stupid too.

I hate that the guy is dead. I feel bad for his family. This little girl is going to be in therapy for a long time.

It's still stupid.

A nine year old girl should still be supervised when using scissors. Has the responsible decision-making capacity of an alcoholic at an open bar. The hand eye coordination of a guy with Parkinson's having an Epileptic seizure.

Let's give her an Uzi and think nothing bad is going to happen.

I don't get it. Explain to me noble trolls and American gun nuts. How is this not stupid?

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