Man Arrested For Making Baby Smile

I do agree that is was an dumb thing for the guy to do, pointing a gun at a baby toy one or not. As a mother I would be quite concerned as well, as for her telling the police that he was pointing a gun at her and her baby she should have specified that is a toy gun. They are both at fault here, but please if you wanna make a baby smile talk to the baby, make a silly face don't point a gun at it real or not dummy!

When I was about five or six, I got a toy gun that made a noise when you pulled the trigger at a fair. This young guy(20-30) just grabbed it from me and started pointing it at me in a very threatening way..

My grandmother reflexively punched him out cold and gave my toy back.

Nowadays you seem to need cops for everything because practically nobody dares to intervene.

There's a difference between strangers playing with a baby and strangers pointing things at a baby and SAYING POW POW, which can definitely be taken as a threat (and is at airports, schools, domestic violence shelters, etc.). And I wouldn't wait to see whether the silver was plastic or nickel plating before trying to get the he l l out of there and calling the cops. Also, did the news story say anything about the guy pulling the trigger? I didn't read anything about that, so it makes no difference what noises the toy would make.

It's also not reasonable to assume that a woman has not been affected by violence and is not suffering from post-partum depression. Blaming her for freaking out is not fair, especially since we do not know her situation. And neither did the weirdo.

Now, once I found out that the gun was a toy and the guy was just a weirdo, I wouldn't press charges. But I don't feel at all bad because the guy was arrested. He deserved to be, for using such incredibly poor judgment. (Also, what kind of grown man walks around with a toy gun in his pocket? Does it rhyme with "mild protester"?)

"It's also not reasonable to assume that a woman has not been affected by violence and is not suffering from post-partum depression."

So we're to assume that most people have been affected by violence and are probably suffering post partum depression? I'm more inclined to assume that most people have a more 'average' or 'typical' life. What I said is that I could understand her over-reaction if she had a good reason...like having been a victim/being close to a victim.

I'm disturbed by the number of mothers who think that people shouldn't want to touch their babies, or that people shouldn't want to play with them or even hold them. There's such a paranoia out there and most people just want a little lovin' from an adorable kid. Lighten up, moms!

And stupid people should be arrested? Oy, there'd never be time to find the real criminals. Let's keep civil rights in mind.

You write as if you're completely out of touch with reality. It's a maternal instinct to protect ones child. I'm living in one of the "safe" neighborhoods in FL and still all day long you hear of child abduction, child molestation, incest and the raping of a child (happened 4 days ago or so,) and you think we're anal? If a person whom has no affiliation with me or my child even dares come close with a toy gun and is even dumber than that to say pow pow, you best believe I'm calling the cops. Leave the baby loving to the people that actually love the baby. He or she will not suffer one bit by not having a stranger shower their affection.

Why did you reply without reading the article? It was a gun that lights up, meaning it was designed for children.

I did read the article, and it doesn't matter what kind of gun it was. Why would a complete stranger, a grown man, point ANY kind of gun at a baby? It's completely inappropriate, it doesn't matter what kind of gun it is. And by the way, not all guns that light up are designed for children, and they're ESPECIALLY not designed for babies.

testified! good freaking answer, man. :)

Bahahhahahahahah! Wooooooooo! That is hilarious! Honestly, that woman is a whack job. It's situations like this that make me just say to ladies, "your kid is cute " or "beautiful baby". Half the time the mom's are so ignorant they don't even crack a smile back or say thank you. She was probably one of those types. I agree with the person who said police are trigger happy. That is absolutely right. Had the man been killed by police, kharma would have been hell to pay back. As it is, the way she acted in this situation, I would not be surprised to find out twenty years from now that the kid grew up to be a Manson or Dhamer. Total mommy complex of some kind because she is a smothering psycho. Maybe the kid will pull a Michael Jackson, she will love that. The civil reaction would have been, "Look man, back away from the baby, you are creepin me out." If he didn't listen, tell him you will call the cops or scream or just call the damn cops and say that he won't go away. I think all common sense has been illusive to a grander portion of the population lately. Usually I don't even bother telling someone twice, nor do I bother with cops. Had I told the idiot to back off and he didn't, I would simply make that toy a permanent fixture in his back side.
Moral of the story:
She has head up her rump
Baby will grow up to be serial killer
Man will now probably kill her even if he had not planned on it before because she just got something up his rump in jail
Don't you just love happy endings?

What kind of mother takes her child outside without putting on its aluminum foil hat?