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The father is guilty, guilty of using bad judgement and he will suffer from that worse than any legal verdict could do.
My problem with this incident is that although the parent TRUSTED the "instructor" at the gun show, why did he feel the need to have his child fire a gun? I wouldn't want my neices or nephews to handle a BB gun, let alone a real firearm. I don't care if the child is "mature for his age" or "big for his age", it's just that you don't know how that child will react to a high powered gun (meaning higher than a cap gun or a nerf gun) than they've ever had before.
That would be the equivilant to expecting someone that shoots a .22 rifle to automatically be able to handle a shotgun or elephant gun, or even a .357 magnum.
Although there are a number of guilty persons involved in this accident, their level of "guilt" will be decided in court, and hopefully their relative punishments will be just.
Of course we're talking Massachusetts here, so who knows what will happen. They could get life, or a slap on the wrist.
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