CNN poll: "Should children learn to shoot guns under adult supervision?"

[FROGO207]

Just voted we are still behind at 32%.

 

[Warp]

Based on the premise that people should hold their friends close and their enemies closer, I read CNN and several other publications which I disagree every day. However, I read the CNN national website. As I mentioned, this is posted on their international website. I see that as a deliberate attempt to end run the U.S. firearms owners and get a favorable response from English speaking people living outside the U.S.in notably anti-gun countries. CNN was doing its best to avoid our opinions. CNN is aimed at the chronically shallow and has no credibility among critical thinkers.

Yeah, but, who the hell cares what the results of their poll are?

 

[Nom de Forum]

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As for the machine gun range tragedy that occurred, the instructor is 100% at fault, and sadly paid for his mistake(s) with his life. The girl is a complete innocent due to her age, and probably doesn't even realize the full impact of what happened, but the instructor I believe made the following mistakes (not on purpose, I think he just got too relaxed in what he was doing):

1. He was positioned wrong. He should have contemplated every worst-case scenario - a run away being one of them - and adjusted properly. He should have been positioned more behind her.
2. He had a hands off technique which failed to restrain the recoiling weapon. He was unable to react to anything that went wrong.
3. He switched to full auto without instructing the girl what he was doing and the consequence of that action. Notice she immediately pulled the trigger as soon as he selected, and I believe he was not ready when she pulled the trigger.
4. The girl never demonstrated that she could properly support the firearm. She took one single shot from a bench rest position and it looked as if he never again required that she had a proper grip on the gun when the full magazine was fired.
5. Letting her take a single shot was a good idea, but the next step should have been to go to two rounds, then three etc., not a full magazine until she was more familiar. If there was a runaway, if only two rounds would have been fired, the second probably would not have caught the instructor in the head and it would have shown that the girl was not capable of properly restraining the gun from recoil.

I agree, and looking at the girl I don't think I would have ever let her fire full auto as I just don't think she has the stature and probably the mental focus to ensure she can always maintain control. The family of the instructor has my sympathy for the grief they feel and I hope this young girl is not permanently psychologically damaged due to the irresponsibility of all the adults involved in this incident.

 

[savanahsdad]

only 436 votes on day 2 ??? wow cnn has less readers than I thought , if this was a FN poll I'm sure it would be well over 1000 votes on the first day ,

 

[Resto Guy]

35% to 65%
"Allowed" is the key word to the anti's. They obviously don't think adults should be "allowed" because these kids are the next generation of gun owners. Which could mean they don't grow up as voting Democrats.

 

[plodder]

"Should children learn to shoot guns under adult supervision?"

As opposed to the supervision of children???

 

[savanahsdad]

up to 49% to 51%

 

[zxcvbob]

As opposed to the supervision of children???

As opposed to learning on their own, unsupervised.

 

[XD Fan]

This is a really stupid poll question.

 

[bldsmith]

Tried to vote, have 3 different computers and none would update numbers. Still 969 yes and 1083 no. Been that way since last night. Yep definitely not a scientific poll.

 

[CathyGo]

The range around here that rents full autos is always right against the shoulder of the person firing the weapon and in a position to help control or take control of it. They will allow people with zero gun experience to shoot them but do it in a very controlled fashion. That instructor had no idea what he was doing. I remember a similar incident where an 11 yr old boy was firing an Uzi and the muzzle walked up so high he shot himself in the head.