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Grieving father says he gave his son, 8, permission to fire Uzi.

Dr. Charles Bizilj stood 10 feet behind his son this weekend at a "Machine Gun Shoot" in Westfield, where the third grader aimed an Uzi at a pumpkin in the distance.

As Bizilj reached for his camera, the boy clutched the gun in his arms and squeezed the trigger. The Uzi flipped backwards and 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj fatally shot himself in the head....

"I gave permission for him to fire the Uzi,” Bizilj said. “I watched several other children and adults use it. It’s a small weapon, and Christopher was comfortable with guns. There were larger machine guns with much more recoil, and we avoided those.”

To quote the Emperor Claudius, quoting Augustus, words fail me.

Unless the sound of someone retching counts as a word.

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rosehiptea
2008-10-28 02:51 am UTC (link)

The whole thing is bad enough but I knew I shouldn't have looked at the comments.

Then again what do you expect from someone who has a middle eastern type name. (no gun LAWS)

Yes, this all has to do with a man's possible ancestry and not with a really bad decision to let a child fire an automatic weapon. Which was legal in the U.S.

I also highly doubt that there are no gun laws in countries in the Middle East but google didn't help me prove it.

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franzen
2008-10-28 04:01 am UTC (link)

... Jesus Christ, you're shitting me, right?

Between this and some hateful comments on Gawker (note to bigots: learn to fucking split the difference between Arab and Muslim, or I will punch you out) -- I just can't even motherfucking deal any longer.

Alas, I know very little about gun laws, but a quick search of 'gun laws Lebanon' returned this, which proves that, yes, there are gun laws in the Middle East. How they compare to the ones in America, I don't know. But since ours are loophole-free, it's a totally fair comparison!

If anyone needs me, I'm going to be over here blaring Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart.

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	kuromitsu 2008-10-28 11:01 am UTC (link)
	How is "Bizilj" a Middle Eastern sounding name? O_o It sounds Central or East-European... Slovenian maybe. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	digigirl132 2008-10-28 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, didn't you get the memo? Any name that isn't easily identifiable as 'English' is now Middle Eastern. My good friend Yamamoto? He's Middle Eastern now. The Kloskys next door, who I hope don't shank me for probably spelling their name wrong? Middle Eastern. If you lat name isn't Smith, Brown, or Johnson, you're Middle Eastern now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kuromitsu 2008-10-28 02:27 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, damn, I always forget about that! (So what about people with German sounding names? Are we Middle Eastern Nazis?) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	digigirl132 2008-10-28 02:34 pm UTC (link)
	Yes. They're the best (worst?) of both worlds. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	redwarrior 2008-10-28 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	Which means I'd best move to Saudi Arabia. Despite me being white. ~~And queer~~. OH NOES (Reply to this)(Parent)

	scimitar 2008-10-28 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	What I've heard from one of my cousins who currently lives in a Middle Eastern country is that the gun laws are pretty stringent for most people, but are very lax for the bedouins, that is, the original natives. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jupiterpluvius 2008-10-29 03:27 am UTC (link)
	Bizilj is a SLOVENIAN name. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2008-10-29 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for the clarification; it didn't seem Middle Eastern to me either. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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