I would disagree, when I was 9 I fired what I now realise was an AK at hay bail targets, though I now realise it was probably an illegal weapon (it might have just been a rifle with a different stock and my memory is playing tricks). I also used to drive a beat up pick up truck through the fields. Both times my dad was there mind you.
Yeah and many of my friend's parents drove us around while not wearing seatbelts..... does it make it right?
And Colpy brings up a valid point.
This isn't like "A kid played with a gun and then died with a 100% kill rate". Do you have any idea how many kids at gun shows fire guns under the eyes of an instructor?
There were probably three of four hundred kids that show alone. Let alone the hundreds of other shows going on at any one time.
Doesn't matter.... if the kid wants to shoot off a gun, give him one he can manage. He couldn't handle this weapon, he died.... people are stupid.
Parents constantly expose kids to risk to let them have fun. Do you have any idea how many kids die in sports? Whiping hard lumps at each other at 75mph and cracking skulls? Slamming into each other playing Rugby and having kids land on their neck wrong? Or hockey, got they have BLADES ON THEIR FEET AND THEY FIGHT.
And do any, ANY of those thing really do anything for the kids other than give them some fun? No, parents let their kids risk death to play sports, and kids do die, often.
There is a greater chance of injury in sports then there is of death.... firearms are designed for killing, that was their original design function and if you get hit by a bullet from most firearms, chances are, you're gonna die, or get injured a hell of a lot worse then any sport you can list.
Even more die on the ride too and from.
Statistical Garbage.... vehicles are used everyday, multiple times a day, which increases the chance of an accident. It's no different in why Male Drivers have to pay higher insurance
"Because Men get into more accidents then women." Men get into more accidents, because
"Statistically" there are more male drivers on the road, therefore the chances of an accident with males is greater.
Once again, give a kid a firearm to use every single day, multiple times a day like a car, and you'll see the "Accidents" and deaths increase a hell of a lot..... a hell of a lot more then what cars could ever do.
And as Colpy pointed out, many, MANY kids drown in pools. To the point that owning a pool does horrors to your insurance because despite all the fun they are, they are child drowning magnets.
I grew up with a pool in the back yard..... a pretty big one.... big enough for that magnetic pull you describe to haul all kinds of kids in it to die.....
..... but guess what? I didn't die.... nobody in my family died..... nobody I knew who went into the pool died..... not one single person has died in our pool. Not one person ever came close to getting into trouble in our pool in the 14 years we had it.
And once again.... statistical garbage..... pools are commonly used more often per day then firearms, therefore the chances increase statistically..... that doesn't mean the statistic is accurate for the discussion, let alone any decent argument.
The more you use something, the greater the chance of something happening.... with a firearm in the hands of someone with very little experience, or none at all for the weapon in hand, the chances of death or serious injury go above and beyond any risks involved in driving a car or swimming in a pool.
But (some) parents still let their kids play in pools.
Safer then a beach.... shall we ban beaches? Your argument is silly.
Colpy is pointing out Logic, everyone else is (understandabley) seeing a report of a dead kid and panicking.
I'm not one for panicking, Colpy is pointing out skewed and flawed logic which revolves around poor number comparisons, which do not address the current issue.
Sit rationally and realize more kids die from being driven to the gun show (or any hobby) than die at the gun show firing guns with a safe instructor.
Clearly this instructor wasn't safe, cuz now the kid has a hole in his brain.... oh yeah.... and dead.
There is no such thing as perfect safety, sorry.
Sure there is.... don't do something and nothing will happen.
Don't play in a pool and you won't drown in one.
Don't play with a firearm you can't controll and you won't kill someone with it.... you won't kill yourself.
Don't drive in a car and stay clear away from any traffic and you perfectly avoid getting into an accident with a vehicle.