Because Filing a Complaint Is, Like, Soooo Much Trouble
This is how you know Texas is at home today. Welcome to Dallas.
The downstairs neighbor (and I use that term in its geographic, not traditional, meaning) shot the upstairs neighbor because they left dogdump outside his door. So he shoots the woman and then goes upstairs and shoots the man – who is trying to jump off the balcony to escape. Then he stands over the man and shoots him a couple more times for good measure. Then he drives off in his Lexus.
Luckily, the one month old baby upstairs in the apartment was unhurt.
There is no word on whether or not the dog was injured.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
His defense? Standing over dog poop? Is that a real defense in TX?
1I don’t know, if he has the door open and the poop falls inside then he is protecting his home from vandals…
2… or poop covered sandals….
Has there ever been a month with more reasons to get this gun regulation crap figured out? Lordy….
3There has to be more to this story than THAT. And who got the baby?
4That proves the value of the Second Amendment. We must have guns to defend ourselves from the threat of deadly dog poop.
5@Marge Wood…. CPS probably got the baby.
This one doesn’t involve guns, or dog poop…. But I have pondered a lot…….on what I would do.
If I were a 71 year old grandmother, raising a kid, because his father (and I guess mother) were no longer around. And my husband was ill in hospital… And he/she had friends for a “sleepover” and all the kids, despite repeated requests to tone it down… were still raising hell at 4:30 a.m.
I’ve pondered. Should I wake up the parents of these kids at 4:30 in the morning, who don’t respect me, or my home….. and say….. come get these brats out of my house….?
Or would I do…. like the woman involved in all this …..say…..”Go home”….(They all lived in the same condo complex.) It’s not like they walked miles, and miles in the cold and snow. And they were not infants. They were 10-11 year old kids. You would think they would have been taught more respect for people and property.
She ( the 71 year old grandmother) was arrested, because the parents of these children complained… she threw them out of her house.
So, would you pick Door (1)….. or Door (2).
Hard choice. After I had told them repeately to quiet it down, and they didn’t ….. and it got to be 4:30 a.m. and they were still up…. What are kids this age doing awake at this hour??? I think I would have thrown them out….. and then called their parents, and the police, to let them know why….
But I wouldn’t shoot anybody.
6And then there’s this: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/05/3-year-old-s-c-boy-killed-after-mistaking-pink-handgun-for-toy/
Too many people treat guns as toys. They aren’t. They really aren’t.
7Nice house for sale down the block here in Iowa City. No crazy shootings locally for weeks and weeks. Leave Texas and don’t look back lest you turn into a pillar of shell casings.
8This sounds like it falls into the ‘last straw’ category. Just another good example of why it is unwise to keep a firearm lying about – you just never know when a sporadic psychotic event may occur. And you don’t have to be crazy to have one of them.
9Do you think Greg Abbott will cite this as an example of why New York gun owners should move to Texas. “Come to Texas, if you’re crazy you’ll fit right in the GOP.”
10This story points up one of the practical problems with gun possession in the home – uncontrolled anger. There aren’t too many other kinds of weapons in the home that offer such a high likelihood of fatal results with so little effort and minimal ability by the victim to successfully defend oneself. In this case, what if there was no gun at hand? Quite likely, the man and his wife would at least have had a better chance at survival if being confronted by a knife, and axe, a hammer, etc.
A loaded firearm is simply too convenient, too available and too effective, making it just too easy for an angry person to make an irreversible mistake in the heat of passion.
Many who stoutly defend their Second Amendment rights are overlooking one of the important gaps in our present gun ownership scenario – protecting these gun owners themselves from suffering the lifelong consequences of their own emotional decisions and intemperate actions.
11I hope the dog is OK.
12Too damned many guns in this state….
13On the other side of our town in the Maryland suburbs of DC, two couples had been feuding over something (could be dog poop, I don’t know). One day they met up in the condo parking lot and started arguing again. One man went to his car, got a gun, and shot the other man dead. So you have a dead man, a widow, a man on trial for killing him, and the wife left behind when he goes to prison.
If this fool hadn’t had a gun handy, there might have been a couple of bloody noses instead.
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