Duchesne County mom pleads guilty to pointing loaded gun at son's head

[SecularMotion]

DUCHESNE — A Duchesne County woman accused of holding a loaded gun to her young son's head and threatening to shoot him pleaded guilty Thursday to a reduced charge.

Bambi Lee Richins, of Talmage, entered her plea to child abuse, a third-degree felony. The charge was initially filed in 8th District Court as a second-degree felony.

Richins' 9-year-old son told a detective his mother became angry with him while he was cleaning the living room, pointed a .22-caliber handgun at his head and said, "I am going to blow your head off," according to charging documents.

&quot The boy) indicated Bambi showed him the .22 handgun and told him it was loaded," the charges state. &quot He) stated he saw the gun was loaded. Bambi then told (her son) she was going to put the .22 firearm in his mouth and pull the trigger."

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865565263/Duchesne-County-mom-pleads-guilty-to-pointing-loaded-gun-at-sons-head.html

[glacierbay]

1. Wow

talk about harsh discipline, this takes it to a whole new level, other than that, what's your point here?
That a mother did something illegal and was punished for it?

[jenw2]

2. This would not have happened...

if she didn't have a gun. Even small arguments can turn into murder. This incident was just a few millimeters of finger movement away from becoming that.

[glacierbay]

3. And your point is...................

what? . She could have just as easily have held a knife to his throat, he would have been just millimeters away from having his carotid artery cut, or a baseball bat for that matter.

[Berserker]

4. This would have happened

even if she did not have a ...wait for it.....wait for it...a GUN.
Sounds to me she has a mental health problem. She could have held a knife to his throat.
But then NOTHING would be posted here about that lethal weapon because it does not have the magic word...GUN.

[Aerows]

16. There is the mother that glued her kid to the wall

and then beat her. But that's entirely the fault of glue. It had nothing to do with the depravity of the mother.

[holdencaufield]

24. Register Adhesives!

And demand a 14-day waiting period to buy Post Its

[Remmah2]

5. When guns leave the factory.....

.....every last gun and bullet is routed through the NRA office where a voodoo curse is put on it to make it an evil gun. By touching a gun the curse is transferred to that individual making them evil. Rumor has it the NRA will be branching out into baseball bats and matches.

[Eleanors38]

6. So, what is your solution? nt

[SecularMotion]

7. Ban all NRA supporters from DU

[rDigital]

8. Oh, I'm saving this one. You want to ban Ted Strickland from DU. Thanks!! nt

[SecularMotion]

9. Ted Strickland posts in the gun forum? What's his user name?

[gejohnston]

10. The NRA supported him in the last election,

you tell us.

[friendly_iconoclast]

18. Just like Montana's Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer.

Looks like someones' inner zampolit is coming out...

[Jenoch]

11. There might be more

of us left after your ban than you think. I've never been a member of the NRA and I would bet that I'm not alone.

[glacierbay]

12. Count me as part of the never been part of the NRA cabal.

[SecularMotion]

13. It's a start

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

[Aerows]

17. I include a quote from Lao Tzu in my signature

Peace is the way, indeed, but strength is often necessary to preserve peace - that's not Lao Tzu, that is me, Aerows talking.

[sylvi]

19. False start

If you step in dogshit, though, you might want to back up and try another path.

Shih-tzu, The Way of Shih-tzu

[Berserker]

14. Also NOT a member of the

Nefarious Republican Agenda
But I am a Liberal and legal gun carrying American that believes in the Constitution of this United States.

[Eleanors38]

15. JFK was a lifetime member of the NRA. You would have banned him? nt

[SecularMotion]

20. And Lincoln was a Republican

[Eleanors38]

25. He was quite the firearms afficianado...

And was the first to test the high tech, lever-action repeating rifles. On the Whitehouse's front lawn.

Now, would you have banned JFK from these threads?

Perhaps you should ban yourself; you don't sound all that liberal.

[holdencaufield]

21. I have to admire your doctrinal purity ...

...



You can't be a liberal without some good, old-fashioned shunning ...

[Eleanors38]

26. You are obsessed with bans.nt

[gejohnston]

22. since we are talking about Duchesne County, Utah

I am pleasantly surprised that the religious bigots didn't come out of the woodwork.