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Gregory Rodriguez, the host of the Sportsman Channel show “A Rifleman’s Journal,” lives in Sugar Land, Texas, which is close to where I live and has more God, Guns, and Greed than any other zip code in America. I swear it does.
I say that he lives in Sugar Land which is not technically correct. He used to live in Sugar Land until a follow gun enthusiast in Montana found Rodriguez “visiting” his wife.
I do not know what “visiting” means, but whatever it does, it hacked off Wayne Bengston enough to kill Rodriguez, beat up his wife, take his 2 year old son to relatives’ house, then drive 25 miles and shoot himself in the head, which kinda leads you to suspect that Rodriguez wasn’t visiting to sell Bibles.
Now here’s my question: Wayne La Pierre says the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. So, where the hell was the good guy? Is he like Batman and you have to signal him? Or is he more like Superman and instinctively knows these things but the overproduction of kryptonite, Obama’s missing birth certificate, and the Keystone pipeline have messed up his navigation?
I need to know where Wayne is hiding these good guys. Too many times two guys with guns make it real difficult to sort out the good, the bad, and the innocent bystander.
Maybe we could go back to that whole black and white hat thing. That would make cleaning up a crime scene a whole lot easier. I’m just sayin’ …
For right now, I’m gonna bet that these were two good guys who could have settled this thing with a fist fight, a couple of black eyes, and a make-up beer over at the Mustang Lounge. That doesn’t seem like a viable option now days, what with Wayne LaPierre around.
Thanks to Rick for the heads up.
At least Bengston didn’t murder the two year old, which seems to happen a lot in these situations. The level of carnage due to gun owners going off half cocked is shocking. What surprises me is that gun rights/control is still front and center in the media. All mention of better regulation should have sunk below the waves by now. After all, Newtown was months ago.
I can only hope Wayne LaPierre is losing his grip, so to speak. Maybe we can actually get some sensible laws and universal background checks this time.
1Old Wayne’s grip on REALITY has been pretty darned loose for a long time now.
2One just has to look back at the Chris Kyle killing. There is no reasonable explanation that the gun nuts can offer when the deadliest sniper in American history is killed with a gun at a gun range. You KNOW he was holding a gun! You KNOW the friend was holding a gun! So, tell me, how did the third guy manage to kill BOTH of them? Who was the ‘good guy’ here? Which good guy didn’t act? And why not?
Everytime someone spouts off that we need to be armed, or that good guys with guns are needed to take out the bad guys with guns to save us all, you just need to look the gun nut right square in the eye and say, “Chris Kyle”. That’s all. There is nothing they can say after that comment that would come close to anything sane and rational.
3The good news is that the number of American households with a firearm appears to be declining. LaPierre and his masters who manufacture guns are trying to make up for that lost customer base by spreading fear and lies to up gun sales. I think the majority of responsible gun owners look on LaPierre with disgust. His views don’t align with mine and never will.
4I wonder if Wayne thinks both of the dead men were just “good guys” with guns? Probably so, and now the fundamentalists/rightwing nutjobs can denigrate the two wives because they are “single women” raising children without fathers. Oh, what a complicated web.
5I guessing Wayne LaPierre’s rationale goes something like this:
Bigger clips and unlimited weaponry means never having to say “I’m sorry.”
Because there’s no one left alive to say it to.
6A double Darwin award. Though guns make killing so easy that it’s almost cheating.
7I have a problem with the “mental health” angle. I’ve never been particularly afraid that I’m likely to get shot, so I’ve never felt a need for a gun to “protect” myself. (Hunting rifles aren’t for “self-protection,” and I think we’ve established that they don’t need to have 40-round clips.)
So I’m thinking that if you need a gun to “protect” yourself, you might be at least a little bit paranoid, and that’s a form of “mental health” issue.
So if you’re paranoid enough that you think you need a gun to protect yourself, doesn’t that sort of suggest that you’re not mentally healthy enough to qualify to own a gun?
Or am I just too dad-burned trusting?
8My question to LaPierre is: Where the hell were all those great NRA good guys during all the mass shootings???
9We Know- they were down on the floor hiding with all the other potential victims.
Stuff it LaPe- and feel free to use an AR-15 to facilitate the action.
VeeGee, given some of the details of this episode, I wonder if the second sentence in your comment was a pun!
10djw: You have voiced the crux of the subject: paranoia.
11Those of us who have rational minds don’t really see where the gun nuts are coming from. They truly believe that they are about to be attacked at any moment and therefore must be “ready” to take out not just one attacker, but a whole police force or SWAT team or the US Army. That’s why they need those semi-automatics and huge magazine clips.
It makes perfect sense…if you’re paranoid.
Yep, without the guns. There would probably have been a divorce.
A 2 year old would still have at least one parent.
An idiot, from Texas, who probably should have known better, would be still be able to ponder the folly of his ways.
Isn’t Prozac a lot less expensive than semi-automatics?
Just askin’
12It might not be all he wanted, but out there in Sugar Land is an epitaph for a tombstone waiting to be carved, “The Rifleman – he died with his boots off.”
13Like Superman and Batman, LaPierre’s Good guy is imaginary.
14Don’t give free advertisement to The Mustang Lounge!
15Guns are used in domestic violence cases more than any other instrument & even good guys can turn bad. Wayne “The Paranoid” LaPierre glosses over these facts with a silver forked tongue.
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