Parents of girl with uzi did ignored instructor as he lay with mortal head wound

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59. I understand all that

and you summed it up well.

It's not that I have sympathy for the guy, except that I do have compassion for idiots (which I see him as, rather than intentionally malicious). Some people are victims of their own delusion--about safety, about their own abilities, about their level of risk. But we all have delusions of some sort. You don't feel the same about a sky diver or a race car driver or a rock climber--that they deserve death.

Of course the girl is a victim also. A victim of her parents stupidity and negligence equally as much as the instructor's. But her parents did not receive the death sentence in this case, though you are right they could have. They should face prosecution in this case, if we had any decent laws.

I'm the last person to say what was going on at this place is OK. I don't think it is and I'd like to see any place run like this shut down. I am against the proliferation of these weapons in general. But I DO see this guy as a victim who should not have died this way. Unless you want to say that all gun handlers of any kind deserve to die by their own gun (and I doubt that).