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.” He’s been charged with child endangerment and is currently out on bail.
Maybe next time he feels the need for ink, he’ll let her play by the side of an interstate with his shiny new IGOTD trophy. That should entertain her for a while.
Has to teach the kid how to conceal a firearm. 🙂
Maybe bathing suits don’t conceal that well
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“A mistake”? Sorry, compadre, that’s not a mistake. A mistake is calling the wrong phone number, or forgetting to set your alarm clock. You endangered people, not the least, your own child. You should never be allowed access to a gun or a child, ever.
That guy’s dumb enough to be a home invader. Or a politician.
I would tell him to go apply to work for Bloomberg, but given his surname and skin-tone, that won’t go over well
Maybe that’s Obama in disguise!
That is a truly epic level of stupid. I hope to God the State revokes this lunatic’s parental rights before he gets the kid killed.
He’d just make another, and another, and another………….
Hmm…something about criminals not being able to get firearms because of laws….
who’s gonna join me in calling defacs?
” You’re a big girl, right? Here’s an apple and a gun. Don’t talk to strangers, shoot them.”
cheesy line from a bad movie, but this popped into my head just now.
Ah yes, Albuquerque, my adopted home town. The best (and worst) of liberal and conservative all rolled into one.
Where did he find .22 ammo?
You, Sir, win the ROFL of the day!
Major chuckles! Thanks, Sammy!
http://www.gunbot.net/ 😉
When I was 11, I was more responsible than this clown. That aside, dad still wouldn’t have turned me loose with a .22 unsupervised.
I’m living in Albuquerque; love this town, love this state. I had a .22lr rifle when I was 11 Y/O. I could take it out any time I wanted without asking my parents. But I wouldn’t have gone to a public pool, even with a .22lr pistol.
I know right…… .22lr is way underpowered for a public pool in Albuquerque!
Well. APPARENTLY, you don’t know how dangerous pools can be!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri-UE0pEomA
Always pack – you just never know!
…from the article: “The daughter didn’t threaten anyone with the gun, and no one was injured from its presence.”
So, in someone’s mind, you can be injured by the mere presence of a firearm? Amazing!
Exactly! Assuming she knew how to use it, there really isn’t a problem. Shyanne Roberts is 9 and a champion shooter, and as others have pointed out, when we were kids, kids had .22 rifles at age 11 and didn’t die/kill anyone, and nobody called it “endangerment.” Why, I hear tell some parents actually spanked kids without being locked up for child abuse.
Must be a great neighborhood if you need to be armed @ swimming pool.
I am speechless…
Yup. I got nothing…
When you were still active PD, wasn’t this called “felony stupid?”
But he needed a tattoo! Besides, an 11 year old with a gun, what could go wrong?
This guy advances several ideas. Eugenics, forced child removal & retroactive abortion for him. Not the child’s fault. It will likely be blamed on his socio-economic bull etc… Wonder what kind of ink. regular or gang. Understand Albuquerque has a gang problem
This guy wins (not a good thing). This is absolutely positively the most ridiculous irresponsible gun owner i’ve ever read, here or otherwise. This guy wins. I’m at a total and absolute loss for words. Donkeys like this guy shouldn’t lose their kids, they shouldn’t be naturally able to have children. I own and carry all day every day, I live in NY, Im PRO GUN. This gun destroys anyones threshold for logic and reason, make a trophy and make sure he gets it!
Albuturkey. Land of Entrapment!
I suspect MDA won’t invite him to a stroller jam anytime soon
Perhaps they should cut off his nut sack and tattoo a set of balls where his use to be. This way he can’t have anymore kids and he got him self a brand new tat at tax payer’s expense.
I’m dying to know what the tat on top of his head says? “Birds aim here”?
“Don’t forget to shave/wax”
“Place shades here”
“Ear with big dumbass hole is your left”
“This End Up.”
“Contents: Shit”
“Space for Rent”
” this space intentionally left blank”
What endangerment? I’d certainly think that the vast majority of 11-year-olds know better than to shoot themselves or other people. I understand there are people who start teaching the Four Rules as soon as the kid can understand English.
Sending any kid to a public pool in Albuquerque is endangerment!
And do you trust every other child at that pool or are you assuming she has great retention skills?
“And do you trust every other child at that pool or are you assuming she has great retention skills?”
With the rampant hoplophobia going around these days, I presume they all ran away screaming just at the sight of the thing.
So, what do you figure the odds are that this father-of-the-year candidate is one of the aforementioned guys who teaches his kids about responsible and safe gun handling at a young age?
Oh dear. Surely, not a smart thing to do?
Did anyone notice the color of the tattoo on top of his head matches his earrings? Guy has style! Probably even carries his .22 in one of those nifty ITR (inside the rectum) holsters when his daughter’s not packing.
Hey c”mon. I quit going to public pools 40 years ago. They were getting dangerous even then. Homies little girl needed protection. Maybe pops will give her some condoms when she turns 12…
This guy’s logic qualifies him for more than an idiot gun owner award.
On my laptop screen those look like sutures on his head, not ink. I figured that was where aliens took out his brain. Maybe I was giving him too much credit.
I was hunting and target shooting unsupervised with larger calibers by 12. Of course it was on private property and well away from other people.
how does one “need” a tattoo? And how does one “need” anything so badly they would leave their child unattended, unless they were a meth or heroin addict.
Something rings false about the guy’s whole story.
What a dumbass, he’s not teaching her right. He should loose custody of his daughter, and for a tattoo! Good person yeah right he know whats up. Worst parent, are swords or arrows next, maybe a grenade?
FELISHA!!!!!
Well…at least he didn’t leave two screaming children in a hot car while getting a tan.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nanny-23-leaves-children-hot-car-cops-article-1.1850582
John doesn’t really care since he’s probably got 11 or twelve more kids either in the US or on the way from Mehico.
Complete idiot! Nuff said!
I used to live close to this guy…. I heard from a source that he shot his gun off at the couch for shits and giggles….. so Yeah… he shouldnt own a gun.. probably has a drug problem too.. drug parinoia+guns=children= BAD NEWS… cuz I know for a fact that the neighborhood is very safe. I lived there for MANY years and for the most part it is all good people…
Och aye, a ken whit yer comin’ from laddie, that eejit’s a richt nut, aye? Leaving a wee bairn wi’ a loaded gat, pure auld nonsense. Whit’s a lad tae dae, thae? It’s a well-kent thingiemabob, isnae it, but the gat thingie is feckin’ loony! Th’ pair lass’ll be traumatised for life frae bein’ in contact wi’ the clootie’s gat, aye! She’ll graw up tae be an aye on killer! Help me boab!
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