Every parent runs into the problem: what to do with your wee bairn if you have to run out unexpectedly. So when John Ruiz of Albuquerque needed an emergency tattoo, he did what he had to do. He took his 11-year-old daughter to the neighborhood pool, gave her a loaded .22 for protection and left her there. A neighborhood mom noticed the girl with the gat and called the local 5-0 . . .
Apparently it was just a momentary lapse on Ruiz’s part, though. As he told a reporter, “You guys don’t know about harassment or anything else. We’re good people, I don’t know what to tell you. I made a mistake, that’s it.”
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It is terrible to leave a young child alone at a pool with a loaded weapon like that. What specific law/regulation do you propose in order to prevent this sort of thing from happening again?
The more I read stories like this the more it seems we need background checks before someone is issued a license to breed.
For Pete’s sake! Stop harassing the guy. He can’t think very well as it is!