meanwhile the school’s “resource officer” will be in the parking lot hiding behind his car
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Who picked that euphemism?
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Makes them fungible.
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at least Dad isn’t more concerned with his gun.
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I’ve got extended family in that area. Not a place I’d expect to hear news like this from.
Midland police have said the shooting began during a traffic stop Saturday afternoon. The suspect is believed to have shot the officer who stopped him, before continuing to a local shopping center, where the shooting continued. Officers pursued that suspect after he fled the scene in a US Post Office vehicle.
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Shot the policeman during a traffic stop. That sounds very sovereign citizen-ish.
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(ending part of this headline is “among those injured”, just to help head off shock from the unfortunate cut-off point)
Other reports are saying the main weapon was (yet again) an AR-15-style rifle. Which the guy just happened to be driving around with in his car in easy reach, apparently.
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He had to be ready for a roving band of wild boars.
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Literally, just “thoughts and prayers”.
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. . . such as state representatives saying nothing could stop a person with evil intent.
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Then why are there laws at all?
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The Texas legislature is part time organization. Every two years, it has a 140 day sesssion. There’s a case to be made that such an institution is structurally ill suited to respond to such crises.
On the other hand, the Governor of Texas is said to be the third most powerful office in Texas, after the land commissioner and the Leftentant Governor, so maybe there’s just one hell of a power vacuum.
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If this guy didn’t have such easy access to guns or ammo, he would have just gone on a mass-stabbing spree, while on the run from police, don’tchaknow?
The response also rather pre-supposes that these kinds of incidents are always pre-planned…
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Two things jumped out at me about that. Okay, three.
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When he calls things like background checks a “pre-crime”. I wonder what he makes of driver’s licenses.
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The whole can’t prevent people from doing evil thing. Okay, I suppose that’s true, but that means he disbelieved all the studies on deterrence and sees things like jail time strictly as punishment. Which actually goes far to explain the Texan death penalty stance.
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The whole God-given right thing he mentions a lot. Like, did he even know how legislation works?
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Yeah, right. And the moon is made of green orange cheese.
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Driving (and survival in a society that requires it, and survival in general) aren’t enumerated constitutional rights.
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Neither is carrying a gun into Wal-Mart. Maybe if a well-ordered militia walked into the Wal-Mart, but definitely not Joe Blow and his Armalite stocking up on toilet paper.
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