In a frightening and shocking scene, activists circulated a video clip showing an Iraqi father aiming the barrel of his gun at a target hanging in the mouth of his child in an attempt to demonstrate his skill in shooting and aiming, which sparked a wave of anger in the Iraqi street.

The man appeared in the video declaring that he would do what he described as a small event to demonstrate his skill in shooting, and he asked his daughter to install a plastic canister on her mouth without moving, then he pressed the trigger of the gun to hit the canister from a distance of a few meters.

This behavior of the father provoked angry reactions on social networking sites, and activists expressed their great surprise at the man exposing his young child to the risk of death, amid calls for the concerned authorities to arrest him and impose the most severe penalties against him.