Discussion for article #247203
Now, I wonder why anyone would shoot up his office? Itâs a mystery!
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It is so nice to see the âgood guys with a gunâ, the responsible(?) gun owners of Texas expressing their opinion regarding one of the few rational members of the Texas legislature. Is this what we all have to look forward to?
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How manly, courageous and mature to do this. The gun culture in the United States is pure insanity.
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Applying Occamâs Razor, the simplest answer is that the bullets gained sentience and shot themselves at the office to protest Whitmireâs anti-bullet bigotry. Bullets are people too, my friend. Save the bullets!!
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This makes me sick - Whitmire is one of the few Texans in the lege that Iâm actually proud of.
I canât get out of this state fast enough.
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The Senator seems to have a point. Liberalizing gun laws in a State with folks inclined to do what they did to his building does seem like a serious mistake.
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Correction, the gun culture in TEXAS is pure insanity. We allow STUDENTS to take hidden glocks to class at Texas colleges.
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I used I35 NorthâŚonce across the Red River Iâve never seen a reason to go back.
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Despite the somewhat modest look of the house where Whitmire offices?
This is a fairly high-dollar, historically protected, area of Houston known as âThe Heightsâ.
The Heights is also known to be somewhat eclectic-- a lot of aging hippiesâ
some great food/bars/entertainment.
Not a place where you hear of alot of shootings or violence.
Now the area just north-northeast of there is a pretty rough area.
I know some folks that live in that area. I probably would not.
But itâs mostly AA and Latino enclaves.
Not the kind of folks who might randomly shoot up the offices of an elected AA official.
Seems premeditated from my perch.
jw1
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âOn the day the bill legalizing open carry for handguns passed the Texas Senate last MarchâŚWhitmire said his fellow lawmakers were making a very serious mistake.â
Why doesnât he get that Constitutional rights are absolute?
Take the First Amendment: It protects those who shout âFire!â in crowded theaters.
Also libel, plagiarism, perjury, extortion, sexual harassment, snuff films, threats of bodily harm or death, and advertising cigarettes to children on television and radio.
See? Absolute!
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Iâll never again go to Texas. Itâs a war zone, armed and dangerous.
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WellâŚif you want to contest a grade you can take it down to the OK Corral. ButâŚif a good student with a gun shoots another good student with a gun ( the inevitable ) who is the third party with a gun that make it all right again?
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Sure. Teaching the 3 Dâs!
Dead+Dead=Dead
jw1
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Dear Texas,
Keep up the good work. People are already starting to forget about how crazy we are.
Love,
Florida.
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Iâm just wondering why there are no witnesses. It looks like a fairly populated area. No one heard or saw the shots being fired? The story doesnât mention it.
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It might not happen today, it might not happen in the next 6 months, but sometime in open carry Texas there will be some armed citizen, thinking that he is helping out the cops because he is johnny on the spot when some big robbery happens and the cops have not yet arrived is going to have his gun in hand, aimed at lets say, a robber when the cops show up and shoot the armed citizen who is just âhelping the copsâ
Hell, it was about a year or more back and I do not recall it making the paper at that time, but a gentleman of color was standing on the street, waiting for his wife to come out, when a couple of plain clothes cops, who âthoughtâ that he was the guy they were looking for, despite being the wrong height and weight and age and then proceeded to beat the shit out of him-now paralyzed from the chest down-until a radio call informed them that the actual person had been caught some distance away. The âcopsâ? They got 5 days off and used vacation days so lost no money at all.
NOW, since the victim, a totally innocent man, is suing the SAPD(I believe his lawyer is Thomas J Henry) the story finally make the from page, above the fold, in the SA Express-News.
Also fairly recently, a cop, driving drunk, in a police car, with his girl friend, shoots, in the back no less, his GF EX. The Police Chief really did try and fire him, but the contract says that it had to go to Arbitration and the 87 year old arbitrator some how just failed to notice the driving drunk, in a marked police car, with his GF and chasing his GF EX and shooting him in the back, and made the SAPD not only rehire, but gave him back pay.
Some criminals are wearing police uniforms and some Arbitrators should have retired a long time ago
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Iâm certain the NRA breast fed and gun nuzzling Baggertrash and Republican ammosexuals from the Loon Star State will NEVER be able to come up with a reason this happened, huh? Nope! ____ The only answer for them is to outfit that office with night vision, a few machine gun nests and MORE GUNS!
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Cue the Texas gun nutâs âfalse flagâ outcryâŚ
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Actually not sure if I-35 North is the best way⌠across the red river is Oklahoma⌠not exactly your paradise of sanity⌠further north is Kansas⌠which used to be sane⌠pay your tolls in the Kansas Turnpike so that the Koch Bros can get a tax cut and you get into Missouri⌠oh well, keep driving into Iowa, which I guess is OK. a few more hours will get you to Minnesota which is pretty good as long as you avoid Michelle Bachmannâs territoryâŚ
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