In gun-friendly Houston, Texas, I'm surprised this even makes the news. From the state leadership on down, guns are as commonplace as cattle Texas. In the big cities, they're more common.An investigation is underway after someone fired two shots at the windows of Congressman Gene Green’s office Tuesday morning, a spokeswoman for the congressman says.
What's your opinion? Why do gun-rights people have such a hard time seeing that where there are more guns there is more gun violence? Isn't that the most obvious thing? Why must they keep accusing us of claiming guns are the ONLY problem, which no one that I know has ever said? Why must they keep bringing up Vermont, which due to its bucolic, uniracial society, enjoys a fairly peaceful lifestyle despite the presence of guns?
The fact is, generally speaking, gun availability equals high gun violence. When the other factors are present, unemployment, poor education, substance abuse, etc., the problem becomes acute.
What do you think? Please leave a comment.
Sounds like Rep. Green needs more security, seems it's all his fault that he let his office get all shot up, what about bullet proof glass and 24/7 police patrols, all things that Rep Green should have been requesting.
ReplyDeleteFringie, you didn't think through your stupid commment.
ReplyDeleteGreen and his office had an upgrade of their security after the Giffords shooting last January. The FBI is investigating, but the indications are this was a random act of vandalism using a BB/pellet gun.
As Green, a democrat, noted, he has always been confident that he can take care of his own safety.
Presumably you would argue that the entire office staff, including the janitor and secretaries had instead rushed outside and begun blasting away with expanded magazines of ammo and automatic weapons?
Really? Even if this was just some kid committing a prank on a dare?
The damage was so minor that until they felt the breeze coming through the broken glass they didn't even realize anything had occurred.
Besides, after the health care legislation related threats, democrats got used to this kind of conduct in other instances from the armed and dangerous conservative extremists. You know, illegal and uncivilized behavior from those 2nd Amendment nuts.
Fortunately this doesn't appear to be another one of those. This time.
DG - did they find BBs or pellets in the office? (Sorry can't watch the video right now)
ReplyDeleteAre they even sure this was a shooting and not some car or lawn mower kicking up rocks?
Fringie, you didn't think through your stupid commment.
ReplyDeleteGreen and his office had an upgrade of their security after the Giffords shooting last January. The FBI is investigating, but the indications are this was a random act of vandalism using a BB/pellet gun.
Sounds more like Wittle Mikey, didn't think his little bit of tripe all of the way thru.
Presumably you would argue that the entire office staff, including the janitor and secretaries had instead rushed outside and begun blasting away with expanded magazines of ammo and automatic weapons?
Oh my goodness no, Members of the Democrat party can hardly be trusted with position of leadership much less firearms, I certainly hope that they are the first ones to be disarmed in you gun free utopia.
I was just thinking that he and his staff were at fault for not having motion sensors and exterior cameras and gun/bb-gun shot detectors so they could have caught this despicable vandal in the act of defiling his sanctum of democracy.
Because we know that vandals never do this to rethuglicans....
Frayed fringie wrote:
ReplyDelete"I was just thinking that he and his staff were at fault for not having motion sensors and exterior cameras and gun/bb-gun shot detectors so they could have caught this despicable vandal in the act of defiling his sanctum of democracy."
We don't know if he had exterior security cameras; it is not indicated in news reports. Presumably it is part of the basis the FBI came to the conclusions they did.
It is my understanding Jim that given the location of the office, the sounds heard at the time the window was broken, etc. rocks from lawn mowers etc. were ruled out.
Unlike for example, the silly conclusion that Eric Cantor lept to when a bullet broke his unidentified office window, but was moving with such minimal force driving it at that point that it bounced off the blinds. Cantor freaked, unlike Green.