Lauren Boebert allows 8-year-old to play alone, next to possibly-loaded firearm

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In a video reviewed by Salon and apparently recorded on July 25, the 8-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., can be seen singing, dancing and playing with cigarette lighters — while left alone in a room a few feet away from a high-capacity rifle. This would appear to violate a new Colorado state law, under which gun owners are required to store their deadly weapons in a gun safe, with a trigger or cable lock, whenever the owner is aware, or should reasonably be aware, that a "juvenile or a resident who is ineligible to possess a firearm can gain access to the firearm."

As a newly-elected member of Congress in February, Boebert was widely criticized after appearing at a House Natural Resources Committee meeting via Zoom before a backdrop of a bookshelf bearing several high-capacity weapons.

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In response to the outcry, the far-right lawmaker fired back on Twitter by suggesting that the weapons were loaded, posting, "Who says this is storage? These are ready for use." Additional photos of the firearms in question suggest that two of the rifles were loaded with 30-round magazines and a third with an even larger magazine. Firearm magazines that hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition at any one time, such as those Boebert appears to possess, have been banned in Colorado since 2013.

The bookshelf and chair seen in that February Zoom call are also visible in several of the videos featuring Boebert's son, which indicate that she was in the bedroom of her home in Silt, Colorado, for the congressional meeting.

In the July 25 video, Boebert's son is seen dancing alone in that same bedroom, close to a weapon that appears to be one of the same rifles seen loaded during the February Zoom call. It's in a different position in the July video, leaning casually against the headboard of a bed, near what appears to be a handgun lying on the floor.



Read more: https://www.salon.com/2021/09/10/lauren-boebert-allows-8-year-old-to-play-alone-next-to-possibly-loaded-firearm/

[blm]

1. Filthy home.

[sanatanadharma]

2. The Tok Tok videos seem to have been deleted

The links in the Salon article all return "video currently unavailable".

Consciousness of guilt much?

[Blue Owl]

3. This song comes to mind....

(my mind, anyways...)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Who is surprised by this?

The lady is a bad role model and parent

[underpants]

5. Playing with cigarette lighters??? Okay is that a salt shaker beside a bed?

In front of some sort of drink machine like the do it yourself soda machines. Not that that’s a danger but a salt shaker? Maybe it’s a spare bedroom or something

[Gruenemann]

6. Not that it really matters in this context, but...

...that looks like a shotgun, not a rifle as labeled.

[Me.]

7. There Once Lived A Beautiful Little Girl In the Apartment Below Me

This child was gorgeous with long black naturally curly hair. One day, when Zora's mother was taking a nap, she lit a lighter and turned her hair on fire. When next I saw her that child had a face full of scars and very little hair.

[central scrutinizer]

8. Possibly loaded?

What use is an unloaded weapon?

[Grasswire2]

9. word is that she paid someone to take her GED.

It's not too bright to share videos that contain images that could be used for authorities to remove said child from the home.

She's a really dangerous person.

And I think she planted the pipe bombs.

[2naSalit]

12. She is dangerous...

And I think she could be the bomb planter too.

[PortTack]

10. Sad.. the child should be taken away. She's had her 15 minutes of fame and is toast

Come midterms. She’s gonna be just like her orange mass king, there is so much criminal and shady activity there...she’s going to regret the day she ran for Congress

[Girard442]

11. I've met people like her. They think they lead charmed lives.

Until they don't.

[SYFROYH]

13. Not that it matters, but it looks like a shotgun to me.