I hate to be the guy who does this, but I can't help but wonder what kind of role tv/movies played in this. People are always firing guns in the movies. Uzis in particular, and there's some guy with an uzi in each hand firing in all directions, crossing his arms, shooting behind his head, between his legs all the while the bullets and shell casings are flying and looking cool. They really make it look easy. Effortless. I wonder if this poor kid's dumb old dad somehow believed what he saw in the movies.
That other story on the board about the rubes who were planning on assassinating Obama by "driving at him really fast and shooting out the windows" made me think the same thing. It's like these people think what they see in the movies is reality.
None of this excuses anybody or explains the role of the "instructor" in this tragedy of course. That doesn't make much sense at all. I thought these gun nuts were supposed to understand guns.
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