Stupidity has just rewards and the dead man got his, that said; whether it was a single shot rifle, shotgun or any other hand held weapon is a vacuous argument.

How many round the firearm can discharge means nothing except to those who have an agenda to shout from there soapbox.
Had the girl mishandled a single-shot weapon that fired, struck and killed an instructor the soap-box people would be spouting the same — Nine year old child, blah,blah,blah, blah.
The fact it was a sub-machine gun just makes them shout their vacuous point more belligerently.

The only point that can forwarded, is that the instructor broke rules of safety and paid the price for ignoring safety.

No, what is “vacuous” is failing to acknowledge the crass stupidity of giving a child a gun -any gun- in the first place. But never mind, the instructor got his “just rewards” for his mistake.

I have better ways of spending my time than getting sucked into this kind of rubbish again, so I’m out.

Saw a hoarding for a well-known DIY chain a while ago saying “15% OFF ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! (Exclusions apply)”

One thing that irritates me is “We here at XXXX believe in good old fashioned service” when they really ought to be saying “We here at XXXX believe in making as much money out of you as we can.”

Hugh Jarse.

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

I think there’s often an “Emperor’s New Clothes” factor to this kind of thing. Impressionable kids hear this stuff and instead of recognising it as the rubbish it often is, they think it must be something deeply significant or symbolic that is way over their heads. Rather than admit that they don’t understand it, they pretend to lap it all up, hoping no one will see through them. IMHO that’s the only explanation for the success of Rap music, which all too often is just a string of rhyming words. I remember as a kid, me and my mates telling our parents that they were just too old to really understand some of the more unusual Beatles stuff such as “I am The Walrus” and “Come Together” like we supposedly did, but now of course I recognise it as just gibberish.

http://www.amiright.com/real/nonartist/beatles.shtml

Always had a downer on the Supermarine Scimitar. Seemed to take forever to evolve from the Type 508, it had a very modest production run (who else would ever buy it?) many said it was over-complicated, difficult to maintain, over half those built were lost in accidents, and at the end of the day it was a pretty mediocre performer. Can’t help thinking the RN would have been better off with an off-the-shelf USN type.

I believe part of the B-57 deal was that Martin would try to promote the name Canberra in the US, but of course it was never officially called that in the USAF.