Fun With Guns: Aggie Edition
With campus open carry becoming the law in Texas, everybody has been very concerned about an uptick in campus homicides. Homicides ain’t a problem. Damn fools are the problem.
In Bryan/College Station, home of Texas A&M University, two brothers and one of their friends reported that one of them was shot by an unknown assailant as they were just walking down the street, minding their own damn business, and they didn’t even see who it was or why this person was pissed at them.
The two witnesses told police what was termed “a vague” description of what happened. “I dunno, a bullet came flying out of the air and hit my brother,” does seem a bit vague.
Both men gave the same vague account, according to the police report, and the person who was shot offered nearly the same story while being interviewed at the hospital.
Detectives said they found a bullet hole inside the apartment and evidence indicated that the men were lying about what happened.
According to the police report, Estrada eventually admitted to police that he was sitting on the bed in the bedroom playing with a gun when it went off, striking the other man in the face.
They were all charged with a Class B misdemeanor for lying to the police.
Thanks to John W for the heads up.
You do realize TGIF has a different meaning in College Station. When putting on their boots they have to be reminded Toes Go In First.
1I’m betting they fail their classes in rocket surgery.
2Playing with a gun when it went off and shot another guy in the face? Don’t ask, don’t tell.
3Cheney kin?
4F@#$ background checks, We need IQ checks.
5IQ test are no good. My 6yr old knows not to play with guns, swords, arrows or knifes and he would flunk an IQ test. So these guys are too stoopid to even take the test!!!
6RA –
And they probably don’t even offer courses in Brain Science.
7According to political demographics, college educated white men support the snacilbupeR and occasionally Donnie. Maybe these 3 are the pinhead pinnacle of that slice of st00pid.
Odd or ironic. My Dad, grandfather, and myself are college educated white men, as are many of the men who comment at the WMDBS. I doubt that any of us support shooting a friend in the face Cheney style. Nor do we believe in ‘accidental’ gun discharges. Nor do we associate with any number of the issues claimed by the st00pid snacilbupeR and the Donnie supporters.
Nasty Women move forward and grant some room in the back to the Nasty Men who respect and admire you. We’re ready to take the rear flank while you lead.
NOvember 8th, the day we all gather to tell Donnie NO. For’d harch!
8Do you know why there is no ice on the A&M campus?
They didn’t have the recipe.
My two older brothers both graduated from UT and they always entertained us with Aggie jokes when they came home.
9Oh, the gay metaphors!! Playing with his “gun” in the bedroom. “Shot” roomie “in the face”. Sounds like bad gay paperback porn. I suppose, being in college, studying and reading a book, were out of bounds. Sigh…..
I hope somebody in TX is making a list if these, um, accidents.
10So let me get this straight.
They were charged with the itty-bitty crime of lying to the police.
But if they had told the truth, “Yessir, ossifer, I us playin’ wit’ me weapon that’ll kill ya as soon as look atcha an’ I shot my friend in te face,” he would have gotten off scot free.
I get it now.
Um, no. No I don’t.
Vote between now and November 8th. And DON’T think Trump is the only important name on your ballot! He isn’t. We’ve got to get rid of any person who has or ever would pass laws like “Open Carry on Campus,” or “Open Carry in Bars.” Or, oh hell, “Open Carry.” Or “Concealed Carry.” Or “Just Be Stoopid Enough To Vote For Us and We’ll Give You Whatever Your Little Heart Desires,” except clean water or air or a level playing field. Those things are for wimps [last word cleaned up — with a bow toward Momma.]
11and what did we learn from this boys and girls?
well teacher, we learned that the very last people who should be allowed to own guns, are people who want to own guns. they are just too stupid for society’s good.
good answer boys and girls! all of you get a gold star!
12cpinva, I agree. People who like guns are the ones who “play with” guns which then go off, because the gun-lovers didn’t have the sense to make sure the guns were unloaded first. If I picked up a gun, that would be the first thing I’d check.
13Rhea, I grew up in a Marine family. where I lived, there were guns, small, large and effing ginormous all around the place. they were routinely kept under lock and key, accounted for meticulously, along with the ammo. the only times I saw guns out in the open, were the ones the MP’s had (sidearms), and if someone was on their way to the range, for annual qualifying. the only time their was ever a gun in our house, was when my dad brought it home, so he could go directly to the range the next morning, for his annual qualifying. there was never ammo in the house, that was given to you at the range, when it was your turn on the line. you policed your brass, and between the brass and unspent shells, it had damn well better equal what you had been given, or there was hell to pay.
many of my dad’s friends also hunted. they owned mostly shotguns and single-shot, bolt action rifles. again, you never saw those guns unless they were going hunting, or taking them to a gunsmith. even then, they stayed in their case until time to be used.
no one went walking around town or the neighborhood with a gun, just because. you’d have been stopped by an MP (on base), or the local police (off base), and sort of politely asked what in the hell you thought you were doing? the odds were good the gun would be confiscated, along with any ammo you might have on you.
if on base, you’d have to appear in the base CO’s office, to explain what the fuck you were doing, walking around with a gun, and scaring the shit out of everyone, and why he should give it back to you? not an exciting prospect.
off base, you’d probably have to appear before a local judge, who’d ask the very same question, just wearing a different uniform. bear in mind, this was mostly in the south, so the place hasn’t always been full of gun idiots.
this whole gun thing is a recent development, fostered and paid for by the NRA, representing the gun manufacturers. and they’re in it strictly for profit.
maybe we’ll be lucky, and the idiots will finally off themselves, leaving the rest of us well rid of them.
14cpinva: Thank you for that. I grew up in a military family as well (USN). We had guns… a few… rifles… but were never thought of as toys. Always packed away, never out in the open. We lived on base and off through the years but I never felt “unsafe” to the point that any in our family needed to go about their lives armed.
I think you are correct that the right wing in general and the NRA specifically have been sowing fear and divisiveness throughout the country for decades. On the back of the latest issue of the NRA’s magazine is a full page ad whose headline reads Make America FREE Again. Uh… wut? Ya mean we’re not? Puh-leez. I personally rank the NRA as a terrorist organization. I can’t think.of them any other way.
15@JAKvirginia
Thanks. I had a sorta post going on that subject matter but I vacillated on whether to press submit or not. You da man!
16No family military history here since grampa in the Great War. We had shotguns and rifles on the farm. We took gun safety very seriously and never came close to anyone getting shot or even any accidental discharges. (Except my brothers. . . when they were teenagers and had their own bedrooms.)
17cpinva: Thanks from me as well. We weren’t a military family, though Dad served in the army. But gun safety was paramount. How to carry one when hunting, (for us it was always pointed up, though I’ve met lots of folks who were taught the opposite). And yeah, the thought of slinging an assault rifle on our backs and strolling around town would’ve brought visions of Nazism to dad. But it was when I was a kid (mid to late 60’s to early 70’s) that it seemed like we started hearing about how the nazis took the guns and the first step was gun registration. I’ll bet that that’s when the NRA started taking ad money from gun and ammo industries.
18And let’s not forget, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”.
Micr: Thank you. But don’t ever hold back. You’re one of the A-list here and I appreciate every word you post.
19Damn fools have always been thick on the ground here in Aggieland. I’m guessing the powers that be thought they’d thin themselves faster if they let them play with gund AND motor vehicles, grumble grumble…
20@gabberflasted#4- Nah This Moron “accidentally” shot a total stranger with a handgun, Deadeye Dickless shot a friend with a multi-thousand dollar effete Italian shotgun in .28 bore.All the difference in the world,plus these morons didn’t insist that the wounded apologize to the shooter.
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