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Common sense would prevent most people from giving an eight year old boy an Uzi, especially one chock-full of live ammunition, however, common sense clearly took a fucking holiday recently. 

The Boston Globe reports:

“As his father raised his camera, an 8-year-old boy aimed an Uzi at a pumpkin set up at a shooting event. Before his father could focus, the third-grader from Connecticut squeezed the trigger, and the high-powered weapon recoiled and fatally shot the boy in the head.”

What a senseless loss. I had no idea it was even legal to give an 8 year old a loaded Uzi, which is capable of firing 20-25 rounds a second, but at the annual Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo in Westfield, near Pelham, Massachusetts, that’s exactly what happened.

Christopher, the deceased third grader, and his older brother, Colin, were taken to the Machine Gun Shoot by his father, Dr Charles Bizilj, who is the medical director of the emergency department at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs, CT.

“In a telephone interview yesterday, the boy’s father, Dr. Charles Bizilj, said he stood 10 feet behind his son as a professional trained in using the 9-mm Micro Uzi machine gun stood beside the boy on Sunday afternoon. He said he doesn’t think the shooting instructor was holding the weapon as his son pressed the trigger, as guides did with other children firing the weapon.

“This accident was truly a mystery to me,” he said. “This is a horrible event, a horrible travesty, and I really don’t know why it happened. I don’t think it’s relevant that [the instructor] wasn’t holding the weapon.”

Really? How Christian of you, Dr Bizilj. Personally, I’d be pretty angry with an obviously negligent “firearms professional” who was supposed to be supervising my third grader while he monkeyed around with a sub-machine gun full of live ammo. Even more so when it transpires the “firearms professional” wasn’t even old enough to drive a car. 

It was an interesting choice of kiddies’ outing, especially since, as the medical director of Johnson Memorial Hospital Emergency Room, Dr Bizilj must have seen, first hand, the gruesome results of gun use gone awry. 

While the Expo promised that shooters would be policed by certified instructors, prosecutors have said that Christopher was “supervised”, if that’s the right word, by an uncertified 15-year-old boy.

In the fall-out from Christopher’s death, the club which hosted the fair has been charged, as has the owner of the gun company that sponsored it, Edward Fleury, who is also Pelham’s police chief.

The two men who brought the Uzi to the fair were also charged with involuntary manslaughter. District Attorney William Bennett said Police Chief Fleury had wrongly assured the pair who brought the gun that it was legal for children to use an Uzi under Massachusetts law. 

Chief Fleury and the club also face further charges of furnishing a machine gun to a minor, and prosecutors said they knew of at least four children, including Christopher, who fired automatic weapons at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo.

A brief search on Youtube returned a video of a father-son trip to the fateful Expo on the day in question. The son in the video, Michael, looks about ten years old. Unsurprisingly, no mention of Christopher’s death appears on the video, though it is not clear if the incident occurred while the father-son outing was still going on.

It’s an oft quoted NRA mantra that, “guns don’t kill people, people do”; I would posit that, in fact, bullets kill people, with the invaluable help of guns and people. Remove any one element from this troika of death, and it is instantaneously more difficult for guns, people or bullets to kill anything. Not impossible, obviously, but firearm-free murder certainly demands a greater level of commitment and fitness to carry out a homicide. Perhaps that’s why the largely gun-free Euros are so skinny?

A sobering reminder: eight children and teenagers are shot and killed in an average day in this country, and 48 more are wounded, according to the Brady Centre to Prevent Gun Violence.

This is a Youtube vid of the father-son trip mentioned above. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on at these events, here’s an interesting inside look. Military-grade weapons of many types are shown demolishing cars, disused domestic appliances, and a mountain of pumpkins, among other things. Some guns are tripod mounted and others are of the nested or turreted-type seen on military vehicles. Wholesome family fun!

Don’t miss the bit around the 5:30 mark when the father is completely distracted from his machine-gun-wielding child by a female gun enthusiast and her tits.