Why so much sympathy for the retard with the gun?
This is an assumption, but I think it's a reasonable assumption: I have sympathy for the guy trying to train because I believe he is under the supervision of either an instructor or a more experienced friend. This guy knows what recoil is, but he obviously wasn't expecting it to be as powerful as it was.
Assuming he is unsupervised by an instructor/experienced friend, then yeah he's just a jackass. I am operating on a very safe assumption here, as someone is filming him and he is at an indoor range. There are professionals supposedly observing the range at all times. If that was my job, and I saw this kid aiming like this, I'd be very concerned. I might step in and suggest single shots until I was sure he wasn't going to accidentally fucking shoot me or someone else. This is pretty simple, what do you not understand?
It's just like handing a very young boy an axe, before he's ready to handle it and chop firewood. He's going to chop himself, and it's an obvious disaster waiting to happen- there should be a responsible individual (the father in this scenario) to prevent this.
This is pretty simple, what do you not understand?
The moment you pick up a gun, you're 100% responsible for it. Not an instructor, not a RSO, you the person with a gun.
I dont believe for a moment that the retard with the gun put any effort into mitigating recoil. If he kept his grip on it and flexed so much at the elbows that it ended up pointing up or at some cockeyed angle I'd at least give him credit for trying. That it completely flipped out of his hands shows he was at best resting it in his hands with negligible pressure on it to hold it.
Your example of an axe is a good comparison. The first time you try to split wood with an axe, you'll grip it ridiculously tight and do a shitty job of chopping...but that ensures you dont drop it, cut your foot off, or fling it into a bystander while you get the hang of the weight throughout the arc of a swing.
Maybe the soy is 100% responsible, but a responsible instructor or RSO should step in if they see something like this going to happen. The instructor would know. The RSO maybe.
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