The NRA Women’s Twitter account blasted out suggestions for making practice at the shooting range fun for kids on Wednesday, less than two days after a 9-year-old girl accidentally shot her shooting instructor at an outdoor range in Arizona.
The instructor, 39-year-old Charles Vacca, later died of his injuries. He suffered at least one gunshot wound to the head after the girl lost control of a 9mm Uzi that was put into “fully automatic” mode.
The tweet from the @NRAWomen handle was deleted without explanation a little over an hour after it was posted, according to the Huffington Post.
Crazy thing is that someone at @NRAWomen thought “This is a good idea.” when they tweeted this 7 day old blog post. pic.twitter.com/BdMRKwkWjl
— Apollo Gonzales (@apollogonzales) August 27, 2014
The story the tweet linked to lists using animal-shaped targets and exploding targets as ways to keep kids engaged at the shooting range.
Damn right! Make killing just like a cartoon! THAT’LL keep kids interested!
Folks, you can’t make this shit up.
How much you wanna bet it was a man who tweeted this message from “NRA Women”?
I am not sure how our country has found itself so far down the road to insanity.
Why stop there? How about targets that actually bleed when you hit them, and targets that let loose with cries of agony when struck? And if the kid hits the bull’s-eye, paramedics show up, apply pressure to the wounds on the target, and transport it to the nearest hospital.
The NRA is really falling down on the job, here. This is an opportunity to make sure the little ones are fully prepared for the life of tragic carnage for which gun ownership is preparing them.