Darthpepper, thank you for your thoughts. Parents should question and check how they are doing as parents and try to do better. There's always more to any story, and I don't think it's right for people to judge a person as being competent or not based on a video or interenet blather.
Some time ago I attended a Fire Walk. Actual walking on hot coals, drums, etc. Present at that occasion was a young man....son of the coordinators...age about 13 if I remember right. Both parents of the young man were present and I remember comments to the effect of... "you can do it if you want to, but if you don't feel it's right then don't walk the coals..." Basically the same things being told to the adult fire-walkers by the fire-walk leader, but the parents were making sure the kid knew he was not being pressured into doing something. If he felt the strength and inspiration...go for it! He did walk over the hot coals. I still have the scrap of fabric that was tied around our wrists of those who were "properly waiver signed". If you didn't sign the waiver, you couldn't walk...
He walked the coals, and so did I...more than once. I was ~28 at the time. I carry that as a badge of honor, a conquest of fear and overcoming the potential for pain. Should we have been allowed to walk over burning coals? OMG! We could have caught on fire!!!! Yes there was the potential for danger, and so there is the potential for danger every time a person gets in their car and drives, or flies, or walks across the road....
Bungee jumping, white water rafting, parachuting...I wonder if this whole situation would of exploded if the video was of a parent tandem sky-diving with a child? What's safe? What's Not?
A parent who's handled guns (forever) should know all about them, right?. What about that kid who was killed when he tried to shoot an automatic weapon and the gun drove upwards until a bullet went into the kid's head?
edit- it was an 8 year old boy trying to shoot an Uzi.............