You couldn't make this stuff up

CNN) – “A 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to Arizona authorities.”

Do I even have to rant about this? Did anyone with a brain and a conscience get past “A 9-year-ol girl learning to fire a submachine gun…” without having to go back and make sure they’d read it correctly?

“Some experts say…” (an Uzi) “…is the wrong choice of firepower for instructing a child.”

You think?

And is there a right choice of firepower for instructing a child?

Sam Scarmardo, owner of Burgers and Bullets – the site of the little mishap – is quoted as saying “they really don’t know what happened.”

Hm-m-m… Pretty sure I do.

There are so many wrong-headed quotes in this article that I half expected it to turn out to be a parody. An unfunny one. Sadly, not so much.

One ‘expert’ opines that “there are some machine guns I could have trained my eight-year-old on. It can be done under the right circumstances.”

Is there a place in this universe where the ‘right circumstances’ exist for teaching young children to use automatic weapons? Or for that matter, weapons?