Sadly, this isn't even all that uncommon. How much of it goes on it hard to know, although if you dig through archives of gun boards you'll certainly find plenty of examples.
She could have become a real shooter. She likely will never pick up another gun.
When I was, oh, 11 or 12, my extended family were out in the country (at a cousin's family farm, IIRC) and the adults were shooting trap. No hearing protection. No drinking...they were every one of 'em teetotalers, but the stupidity would have been easier to forgive had they been sloshed. I weighed about 80 pounds soaking wet.
I was keenly interested in the guns, and one of my relatives thought it would be great fun to hand me....
....a 12 gauge shotgun. Told me to just hold it up to my shoulder and pull the trigger, and aim at the clay pigeon. Yeah. Great idea. Landed me on my butt, mostly because I was so startled that I backpedalled as the shotgun's recoil hit me, and all the guys thought it was abso-frickin-lutely hilarious.
I was over 50 before I ever picked up another shotgun. And to this day won't shoot Archerandshooter's 12 gauge.
What I hate, looking at these videos and pix, is that they are all over the 'net, and how they depict all of us as careless loonies. Makes it a lot harder to get the message out that RKBA includes responsible firearm ownership, that's for sure.
Jan
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