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Sure, Give a 9-Year-Old an Uzi: Four Blunt Points

Sure, Give a 9-Year-Old an Uzi: Four Blunt Points
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A 9-year-old girl in Arizona being taught to fire an Uzi machine gun lost control of the weapon and killed her shooting instructor. The Internet has a video.

This is the kind of horrible incident that invites overheated debate. Herewith four blunt points—framed as questions and intended to shed light before the ideologues go ballistic.