Indiana couple arrested after filming baby putting gun in mouth

[okaawhatever]

Source: the Guardian

Police in Evansville, Indiana, arrested the the mother of a one-year-old baby and her boyfriend after they discovered a video of the child playing with a 40-caliber handgun, police said in a statement.

Police found the video on a cellphone owned by Michael Barnes, a 19-year-old robbery suspect who was arrested on Thursday night after selling a handgun to an undercover officer. Police said they searched Barnes’ phone after his arrest and found the video, which shows the child playing with the weapon. The boy is seen putting the muzzle in his mouth as Barnes instructs the child to say “pow”.

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The child and his two half-siblings, one-month-old twins, were placed in emergency care by police. Barnes and Wilson were arrested.

Both face charges of child neglect, criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and allowing a child to possess a firearm. Barnes is also facing charges of resisting arrest with a weapon, carrying a handgun without a permit and carrying a handgun without a permit within 500ft of a school.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/12/indiana-couple-arrested-baby-video-gun-in-mouth

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

1. Dumbass teabagger scum, most likely.

[840high]

7. Don't think so.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

11. Any reasoning behind the statement?

[onehandle]

2. Gun culture starts in the crib.

NRA approved.

[Sopkoviak]

3. How do you suppose this intellectual giant acquired a 40 cal handgun?

Isn't there some kind of law against that?



And how many times have we heard that a baby mommas little bundle of joy was beaten to death by the baby mommas boyfriend? And she has 2 other kids besides? I wonder how many baby daddies contributed to that?

Oh, I'm sure she'll get those poor children back though, it is her source of income after all.



Wow, she has genius just written all over her face (and chest from the looks of it)

[Lurks Often]

4. Probably got the gun either illegally or through the girlfriend

presuming she had no criminal record of course.

[C Moon]

5. That's sounding like a Yahoo News comment.

[Sopkoviak]

6. So what's your point?

You approve of this behavior?

I actually condemn it and I'm not too politically correct to say so. It needs to be pointed out and condemned, humiliated, embarrassed and shamed.

Not supported.

[840high]

8. ...^ that

[Doug.Goodall]

13. He probably bought the gun in a face to face sale

He most likely bought it in the parking lot outside of a gun show in a 'private' sale. The vendor did not want to lose a sale because of some silly back ground check.

[Trillo]

9. Once again, a double standard of justice.

If a cop uses a gun to kill an innocent citizen, or any other method of killing, it's okay, it's the citizen who will be smeared in the media and the killing will be justified by police hierarchy.

A parent makes some poor decisions that does not result in the death of anyone, and the parents are arrested, and will likely be prosecuted.

Two systems of justice in the U.S.

[840high]

12. It wasn't just a poor

decision. Weapon was illegal. No permit.

[Hekate]

14. Pow. A "parental poor decision" is giving them candy before a meal, or soda instead of juice. Pow.

This was idiotic and dangerous beyond belief. Say pow.

Even very young children model their parents' behavior. The day I saw my toddler stand in front of the mirror and tap her finger into her open eye was the last day she ever got to see me put in my contact lenses.

This has nothing to do with two systems of justice.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. Really? That's your takeaway here?

Holy shit....

[Turbineguy]

10. Babies are so cute

and if you're a teabagger, doubly so with a gun in its mouth, because guns are so cute too.

[KittyWampus]

16. so I think we need to start those NRA-approved Gun Rights classes in preschool

Clearly waiting until first grade is too long.