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

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80. When it comes to tragic early death

I don't parse it that way. I don't see any death as less tragic where there was more risk, or stupidity, or somebody made a mistake. Unless you think that all gun handlers deserve death because using guns is inherently risky. All sky divers deserve their deaths. Did my grandfather deserve to die at 35 because of the mistake he made in a (sport) hunting accident? Was it less tragic than if he died with cancer?

So--if you agree that my grandfather's death was no less tragic, then you must agree there's something different about this type of gun death at the Burgers & Bullets. So you decide the instructor is to blame and died a "fitting" death. That's the way you rationalize it. And I say it is too easy to ignore the real societal problems behind this event, if you place all the blame on the instructor. The war industry in this country enables this hyped-up gun culture, allied with the NRA.

This guy deserved to die at the hands of a 9 year old with an Uzi? That is just too judgmental. People deserve to die because they are assholes or hypocrites of some kind? That would be an awful LOT of people. And some assholes do improve and repent. This lawless gun mania is to blame just as much as the people involved. This culture that infected the parents who pushed the girl to shoot the gun and thought it was so cute.

All of us who sit back and watch this absurd carnage are to blame.