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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-08-16 10:32
Girl loads rifle to spook burglars
11-year-old ready to defend herself
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - When three teenage burglars pried open the door of a northwest Albuquerque home they had no idea they would be met by a brave little girl, police said Wednesday.
Alyssa Gutierrez, 11, took matters into her own hands Tuesday when police said when Miguel Marquez, Eduardo Zubiate and Jesus Quintana broke into her home.
Gutierrez armed herself with a loaded rifle.
"I was planning, if they came right next to me, I would shoot them," Gutierrez said.
But Gutierrez, who will start sixth grade next week, never got the chance because she'd spooked the burglars.
Gutierrez said her cousins went to run an errand around the corner from their home and were gone for a few minutes when she heard the backdoor rattle.
"I thought it was (my cousin) Zachary playing a joke on me so I just turned the TV louder and ignored it," Gutierrez said.
But on the other side of the door were the burglars who pried open the door with a crowbar. Gutierrez believes that they'd seen her cousins leave and chose to break into the home when they thought no one was there.
She said when the Marquez, Zubiate and Quintana got inside, she heard them talk about stealing guns in the home. Gutierrez and her family told KRQE News 13 that they knew one of the suspects and believed the group targeted the home to steal their guns.
"My heart kept on pounding and pounding," Gutierrez said.
She said she slid to the floor from the couch when she saw the trio, but quickly decided that hiding wouldn't do her any good because the masked intruders had seen her.
"They had a rifle so I was thinking, 'What should I do? 'What if they shoot me?'" Gutierrez said.
That's when she made a beeline for her mother's room.
"I ran back into my mom's room and grabbed her little pink rifle, and there was two bullets in there," she said.
With the loaded rifle, Gutierrez said she checked the bathroom and then the living room ready to defend herself. She said she ran to her mother's closet and called 911.
But while Gutierrez protected her home, she had no idea the suspects had jumped the fence and that an off-duty APD officer driving passed her home had spotted them.
Police arrested the three teens and their alleged getaway driver, Abraham Bustillos, minutes after the break-in.
Gutierrez said she feels lucky because just a few days ago she had learned how to shoot a rifle.
"I felt proud of myself," Gutierrez said.
Girl loads rifle to spook burglars
The cat didn't know that rifles come in pink
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Zid wrote on 2010-08-16 11:52
Didn't say anything about her meeting the burglars again with the rifle.
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Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-08-16 12:33
Another reason why gun control is a dumb idea.
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JustNoOne wrote on 2010-08-16 12:52
Yay for little girls holding guns =o
But mehh, i feel things are just right with this and just plain wrong.
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Chiri wrote on 2010-08-16 16:37
Quote from Spartaaaaa;127449:
Another reason why gun control is a dumb idea.
So that 11 year old girls can threaten those who come in her home?
What if the intruders had been the ones with the gun?
What if she'd shot herself?
This could have gone wrong in so many ways.
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Sleeperdial wrote on 2010-08-16 16:57
Chiri don't try to justify gun control, its stupid.
Are you saying its bad that anyone can defend themselves?
Gun control wouldn't fix anything if they had guns.
And how the hell are you supposed to shoot yourself with a rifle?
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Kept wrote on 2010-08-16 17:04
The burglars wouldn't have come if there were no guns to steal in the house.
/problemsolved
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Sleeperdial wrote on 2010-08-16 17:08
You don't know that for sure, its just a possibility. Besides, if I was planning to steal crap, even if there turned out to be no guns I would steal if no one was home. Just think about it, it wouldn't make a difference.
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Kept wrote on 2010-08-16 17:12
"She said when the Marquez, Zubiate and Quintana got inside, she heard them talk about stealing guns in the home. Gutierrez and her family told KRQE News 13 that they knew one of the suspects and believed the group targeted the home to steal their guns."
According to this, if the guns didn't exist, their primary objective wouldn't exist, thus removing their incentive to even attempt to rob the house.
Now all we need is a confession.
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Chillax wrote on 2010-08-16 17:14
Quote from Sleeperdial;127528:
And how the hell are you supposed to shoot yourself with a rifle?
Little kids playing with a gun that has the safety switch off, BOOM. True, a gun would probably be a good defense against a robber, but how do you know the robber won't feel more threatened and actually pull the trigger? Most robbers use the gun as a threat, but how many actually shoot the victim?
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Sleeperdial wrote on 2010-08-16 17:22
Gun control has nothing to do with how many people get shot and not just threatened, something that needs to be realized is that bad people will have guns no matter what. The law isn't going to stop someone who's already breaking it from illegally getting a gun.
Let me point out that generally you have to try in order to shoot yourself with this gun which is pretty much the only gun that comes in pink.
[Image: http://fieldandstream.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/25/pink_gun.jpg]
Especially since she has the short arms of a 11 year old girl.
And what I'm saying is, in a situation where no one was home and our objective didn't exist I would rob the place for what ever else they had.
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EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-08-16 17:34
lol, Sleeperdial actually understands the uselessness of gun control, unlike some people.
It was smart for her parents to teach their children on how to use a gun at an early age to protect their homes though.
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Kept wrote on 2010-08-16 17:38
Quote from Sleeperdial;127542:
And what I'm saying is, in a situation where no one was home and our objective didn't exist I would rob the place for what ever else they had.
So with that, we do know for sure, don't we? Since that's not the situation at all.
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Kueh wrote on 2010-08-16 17:38
This was like 2 miles from where I live.
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Sleeperdial wrote on 2010-08-16 17:41
Its what my parents did for me, I can't imagine what it would be like to go through life not being able to defend myself.
Edit: Kept, this is an awkward situation, thats why it made the news. So I talked about a regular situation considering that what Gun Control was erroneously designed for.