Children of gun instructor killed by Arizona girl wish her peace

Shooting instructor Charles Vacca stands next to a 9-year-old girl at the Last Stop shooting range in White Hills

The children of an Arizona gun range instructor who was fatally shot by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi submachine gun are encouraging the child to find peace and say they hope one day to give her a hug. In a video message to the girl, the four children of 39-year-old Charles Vacca said she should put last month’s incident behind her and move forward with her life. Vacca had been showing the girl how to fire the weapon at an Arizona gun range when its recoil caused her to lose control of the firearm in an incident that touched off renewed debate over the wisdom of giving children access to high-powered firearms, even in controlled environments such as shooting ranges. “We don’t know your name, but we’re connected by this tragedy,” Vacca’s children said in the video released at the end of last week by the law firm retained by the family, Fennemore Craig.

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