Lori Klein, Arizona State Senator, Pointed Loaded Gun At Reporter Richard Ruelas's Chest ..

[one_voice]

Arizona state Sen. Lori Klein (R), a gun-rights champion, keeps a loaded raspberry-pink handgun in her purse, and during an interview with Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, she took it out and pointed it at him.

"Oh, it's so cute," Klein said, before aiming the gun at Ruelas's chest to show off the red beam of the laser sight. Klein's gun, a .380 Ruger, has no safety, but the senator assured Ruelas that he wasn't in danger.

"I just didn't have my hand on the trigger," she said.

Klein told the Arizona Republic that she owns a number of guns and has had "informal" training sessions on each of them, and that she was taught gun safety by her father.

Local gun activists have criticized Klein for pointing her gun at Ruelas, however.

Rob Mermelstein, the range master of the Phoenix Rod and Gun Club, told the Arizona Guardian, that Klein's actions were "unconscionable."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/11/lori-klein-arizona-gun-control-reporter-giffords_n_894973.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk2|77271

[pennylane100]

1. The reporter should have called the cops.

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[tularetom]

3. With friends like this asshole responsible gun owners don't need enemies

The first fucking thing I learned when I got my first kiddie shotgun at age 8 was never ever point the gun at anybody, ever.

Does this stupid beyotch think that fucking thing is some cute little toy? Her father is an asshole too if that is how he taught her "gun safety".

[bottomofthehill]

4. In Arizona its ok to point the gun at him. he is a scarey brown man

[Ken Burch]

5. If he's a scary brown man, it's probably MANDATORY to point a gun at him in The AZ.

:eyes:

I think this is an illustrated of what excessive sunlight does to the brain.

[Mendocino]

9. "Oh dear,

there was this scary brown man near me, almost gave me the vapors, neither Ashley nor Rhett was in proximity to render me assistance, so I availed on my best instincts and zeroed in on his heathen chest with my laser sight, which scared him mightily and dare I say, saved my Honor"

[Confusious]

8. In Arizona, pointing a gun at someone is a felony

A scary brown man pointed a gun at me and pulled the trigger.

[N7Shepard]

6. Irresponsible gun ownership. If anyone should be stripped of their 2nd amendment rights...

[CleanGreenFuture]

7. Why isn't she in fucking jail for brandishing a firearm like the "little people" get charged with?

[14thColony]

10. Well when MY dad taught me gun safety

His Rule No.1 was "You never ever ever point a firearm at anyone at any time ever unless you fully intend to put a hole in them. And that goes for unloaded weapons as well, since "unloaded" guns have from time to time managed to spit out a bullet too."

[aquart]

11. Precisely.

[JHB]

14. Exactamundo

I even got yelled at a few times over pointing toy guns, because sometimes it's NOT a toy, and sometimes someone else doesn't know that it's a toy.
Plus, in retrospect, probably also a matter of instilling the habit early and not letting bad habits develop.

[divvy]

12. Idiots with guns kill people

that is a fact !

[Obamanaut]

13. Many responses at these earlier threads ->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=1470223

Lori Klein, Arizona State Senator, Pointed Loaded Gun At Reporter Richard Ruelas's Chest


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=1466896

ARIZONA STATE REP. POINTS HER ‘RASPBERRY-PINK’ LOADED GUN AT JOURNALIST

[JonLP24]

15. Any training she might've had

would have told her to treat every gun as if it's loaded and by doing that you don't point it at people. :eyes: