Natural Selection at work

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i first saw the story two days ago, on slate. unreal. the instructor was at fault, followed closely by the poor girls parents. and it's the kid who will be the who needs therapy.
i was reading an article this morning about all the tourist places set up to shoot various weapons. that's all well and good...but who puts an uzi on full auto for a nine year old?!
i said at the time that the guy committed suicide by stupidity.

Whoever (the Owner?) made up the rules that a 9-year old girl be allowed to fire a fully automatic weapon is at fault.

The instructor was doing his job albeit poorly and the parents are obviously idiots. Hopefully they do the right thing and cease from breeding anymore future idiots.

[GenuineRisk]

The late instructor's Facebook page includes some interesting highlights:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/08/26/bitter-irony/

Soooo... for all his braggadocio, he was killed by a nine-year-old girl (since he says guns don't kill people, people kill people). And a nine-year-old, according to him, is a killer. Nice.

That said, it f*cking sucks that a kid has no dad because that dad was a total ammosexual. Sucks. I just feel sick for that poor fatherless kid. And terrible for his widow. Vacca, of course, is beyond pain, but they'll have a lifetime of it.

And I am considering blocking the feed of the husband of a friend of mine on FB, who proudly made his 4-year-old daughter pose for pictures looking through the barrel of his automatic weapon, with an angry post that anyone who didn't like it should take him off their friends list. I guess I should respect his wishes. Le sigh.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Whoever (the Owner?) made up the rules that a 9-year old girl be allowed to fire a fully automatic weapon is at fault.

The instructor was doing his job albeit poorly and the parents are obviously idiots. Hopefully they do the right thing and cease from breeding anymore future idiots.

According to authorities, no one is as fault because the place was licensed and operating legally. It was just one of those things. Like how the pregnant woman killed by her friend was just one of those things.

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local...ille/13244051/

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

According to authorities, no one is as fault because the place was licensed and operating legally. It was just one of those things.

I'm sure the civil court will have something to say.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

I'm sure the civil court will have something to say.

Civil cases are brought by private citizens. Who's going to sue? The dead man's family? It's the only ones I can see making sense, but I find it hard to believe a court will buy that the guy was pressured into this by his job, judging from his ammosexual history which is easily accessible on Facebook and which, I have no doubt, Burgers and Bullets has now saved to hard drives. Who else? The parents suing for their daughter's trauma seems a little crazy, as they were clearly complicit, seeing as how they videoed the thing.

Though this is America, where our motto is not "In God We Trust" so much as it is, "I'll Sue!". So, you never know. But it's not the state that brings civil cases, though they sometimes partner with private citizens. Usually that is in a case of civil rights violations, but I find it hard to believe there's any grounds for that here.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Who's going to sue? The dead man's family?.

Were the ones I was referring to

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Were the ones I was referring to

I just don't see how they'll have a case. How do you prove negligence when the facility was clearly adhering to state law? I mean, the thing is on video. If there's any negligence, it's personal negligence on the part of Vacca himself.

Best case, the state will tighten rules on age restrictions and weaponry at shooting ranges, but honestly, fat chance that'll happen; the NRA would have a fit. If a classroom full of dead 6-year-olds didn't change anything, one dead Gen-Xer isn't going to, either.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I just don't see how they'll have a case. How do you prove negligence when the facility was clearly adhering to state law? I mean, the thing is on video. If there's any negligence, it's personal negligence on the part of Vacca himself.

Was McDonalds adhering to State law when they served hot coffee?

And wasn't it the woman who spilled the hot coffee on her crotch who was negligent?

You underestimate the ridiculousness of our civil court system.

Did Vacca provide the girl the gun? Buy the property where the gun range was on? Create the range's rules?

Or because Vacca was a gun enthusiast, he's the only one to blame?