[user104658]

Anyone who has fired a gun SURELY knows that a 9 year old girl isn't going to be able to handle the recoil?? I was in the atc (airforce cadets) for 4 years and there was a height / size restriction on who could use the firing range because smaller kids can't handle the recoil. And this is 12+ year old with .22 rifles braced against the shoulder, lying prone. So yeah... Why not hand a ****ing UZI to a little girl! Weeeeee!

The positive spin on this story is that she shot the idiot who handed the thing to her when she could have QUITE EASILY have accidentally shot herself. Tragic as it is that someone has died, and that she will have that image in her head forever, it would have been so much worse if she (or another by standing child? I'd bet there were some) had been hit.