She Also Can’t See Lightning or Hear Thunder
Texas State Senator Joan Huffman, Republican from Crap, Texas, says that the Texas Senate is going to go ahead and approve loosening of gun laws and open carry despite the bloodbath the day before in Waco.
“This bill does not have anything to do with what went on yesterday,” said state Sen. Joan Huffman, a Houston Republican who leads the Senate State Affairs Committee, during a previously scheduled hearing on gun legislation.
Yeah, and rain has nothing to do with flooding.
Huffman’s comments came after several witnesses, including Austin Assistant Police Chief Troy Gay, brought up the shootout during their testimony on the bill.
Gay told senators that the “chaotic situation” in Waco could have been made much worse by the confusion an open carry law would bring to responding police officers.
Can you even imagine what would have happened if every yahoo in Waco joined in that gunfight? And you need to consider that 95% of the population of Waco carries the yahoo gene.
Appropriately enough, the head yahoo had something to say.
Later, gun rights activist CJ Grisham said that attempts to link the violence in Waco to open carry “really kind of falls on deaf ears.”
What doesn’t mention is that they’re deaf because they’re brain dead.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Searching for a candle in the darkness:
Mess With Texas–Vote Democrat
1Well, obviously the solution to a situation like Waco is more guns. More guns is the answer to every problem!
2Miss Joan ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ Huffman: “This bill does not have anything to do with what went on yesterday”
For lack of a better word, her babble is some dystopian translation of the old meme, “guns don’t kill.” Would Miss Joan care to tell the families and friends of nine corpses that guns don’t kill? Better yet, perhaps she has a plan of action she could share with us describing how some good guys with guns would have produced a better outcome. Guess she doesn’t consider all the police that surrounded the area to be counted among the “good guys.”
Dr. Binoy Kampmark wrote an interesting piece on the history of biker gangs. From that writing: “Despite the blood, the impressive array of corpses, and the carnage, the bikers remain carriers of mythology. Plain vicious criminality and syndication tend to be papered over by the glory of an escapist life. But escapism eventually catches up. In one sense, the American frontier, with its symbolic and actual acts of violence, never closed.” http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/the-biker-mythos-in-waco/
3Nice to think they care so much about our safety. How do I bullet proof my house? Kevlar paint?
4Posted this link to an earlier article on Waco.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/05/18/biker_gang_battles_former_informant_charles_falco_on_territorial_disputes.html
Note the last comments in the article.
5Funny thing about Waco, not once were these THUGS referenced as THUGS by the media. Guess its because they were white, gun carrying, Idiots. No mention of Police Brutality either — again because the THUGS were white, gun carrying, Idiots. Finally no roundup of gang members and their bikes or any of them receiving any kind of rough treatment from the police – WHY – because they were white, gun carrying, Idiots.
6Saw on MSNBC a bit earlier that every person arrested has a $1,000,000 bond on them! Wonder how many of the 170 will be able to post bail! I’d say the jailhouse is probably full of these white, gun carrying, gang member idiots!!
Evidently the fight actually started in a bathroom and was moved out to the parking lot … so it didn’t start over a parking spot, maybe over who had the manliest wienie!!
7I expect once people figure out just what these yahoos’ jail sentences are likely to be, there will be a lot of nullified juries. Or not, in which case the prisons make lots of extra money, and these brawls will continue out of the public eye, with fewer firearms.
8With the way rePUKEians treat poor women, you know this babe MUST have money. Only rich women who can buy all the stuff the rePUKEians forbid (ie abortions–contraception) and thus be rePUKEians themselves.
9on a lighter side..my son who is a 9-5 working dude, rides a harley to work most days weather permitting..the day after the shooting against all warnings he drove his harley…but he did wear a pink shirt.
10How proud we all are to live in the only country in the world that reacts to mass gun violence by LOOSENING gun laws. Everybody else has more damn sense.
Some gun facts and argument-data:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/gun-violence-waco-texas-shot
And a highly recommended cartoon from a highly recommended series:
http://farleftside.com/2015/4-17-15-think-of-the-kids.html
11As a child Joan Huffman never could complete those connect-the-dots coloring books. She filled in every page with scattered lines that looked like bullet trajectories, and when she colored them in with her red crayon, the resulting bloodbath didn’t really have to stay within the lines. Just like in real life.
12She was right about the bill not having anything to do with the shootout. That was the real world. She,and all other wingnuts,live in a fairy tale world where only libs get killed.
13Rick is right, I’m sure. The woman is completely delusional.
14@Yellowdogranny:
FYI…….My daughter rides a pink Harley.
Biker “gangs” are not her thing.
This damned sure is not.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/biker-gangs-shoot-kill-cops_n_7313940.html
Unfortunately, Texas is now reaping what it has been sowing for years.
There virtually are not any “good guys” with guns…. because there are virtually no restrictions on who can, and who cannot own guns in Texas…….
Because…….. Freedom……and Republicans…… etc., etc.
15Of course she doesn’t believe that rain makes flooding. Hell, in her world, rain makes applesauce.
16Those are some dead eyes on that woman!
17Wow..leopard print top, smudged eye makeup, droopy hair with roots showing; she looks like she’s about to make her grand entrance on the Walk of Shame.
I know I’m sort of fashion confused (& I’m not giving up my Hello Kitty moccasin boots) but I think if I were getting my picture taken and State Senator was what they were going to print next to my name, I’d try not to dress like a barfly in morning light.
18Nina Jo, Miss Hussy, er Huffman has nothing on our Pride of Nevada, Michele Fiore. Even Wiki doesn’t include a picture of Assembly person Fiore. Wiki has standards for porn. Although to her credit, Miss Fiore could holster two Smith-Wesson-MP15-22Ps in her cleavage with room left over for an M198 Howitzer. Maybe even an M1 Abrams, if her bra straps hold.
19Oh PKM, I just looked her up. Let’s hope those straps hold. Someone could lose an eye!
20e.p. onion is right, in the 60s only the liberals died. well those were all professional hits, the republicans all survived because the assassins were all just crazies. that said,
open carry is advertising for idiots
so those who vote for the bill are obviously pandering to idiots, assuring the rest of us of their mental abilities.
21I can’t read it or look at her. Fake leopard, like masturbation, makes me go blind.
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