Discussion for article #224564
OMG. We read similar stories everyday and I still can’t believe what the gun culture (stoked by irrational fear and the NRA) has done to people. What kind of parent thinks a kid needs a gun at the apartment complex pool???
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How did he explain just when it was okay to use it?
Why is it that the people who live in the safest areas are the one’s who are most afraid?
I don’t see why this is a big deal. The gun needed company, so he left it with his daughter.
No one ever considers the welfare of the guns…
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And gun or no gun, what kind of parent leaves his 11-year-old at a swimming pool alone and apparently unsupervised? (And doesn’t the gun culture consider swimming pools even more dangerous to kids than guns?)
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Well, it was between the 11-year-old, the three-year-old, the chimpanzee, and the teabagger, so I say he made the right decision.
I like this 100 times - you are right both on leaving an unsupervised kid at a pool and bringing up the “swimming pools kill” logic of the pro-gun nuts.
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After his court appearance on Monday, Ruiz told reporters he made a mistake.
No freaking kidding.
Well, at least he had a really good reason for leaving the girl alone. It’s not like he had to rush off to donate a kidney to someone, or to care for his dying mother, or something equally pointless.
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TPM: Use a different gun photo to accompany each new gun tragedy. This is yesterdays photo; from the story about the 11 yo boy scout who shot himself in San Diego. Can’t keep them all straight if you recycle the visuals.
every 11 year old girl should have a gun so why is everyone upset the real question is can the kid swim??
WTF? An ARREST? Why? Certainly not because Freedom!!!
Yeah, but was he a good kid with a gun or a bad kid with a gun?
An Albuquerque father is facing a child endangerment charge after police say he left a loaded .22 caliber gun with his 11-year-old daughter …
I’m not certain what the problem is here. I’m sure the girl was more responsible with the weapon than her father ever was.
The gun was to protect her from the swimming pool.
Child endangerment? She had the damned gun! I’d say anyone that took cuts in the diving board line was the endangered one.
She also got her towel amazingly quickly, neighbors noted.