Fun With Guns: It’s Waco, For Pete’s Sake Edition
The county commissioners in McLennan County have decided that it is too expensive and not a great idea to allow the carrying of weapons in the county courthouse.
Now, we’re not talking about some kale-eating free-loading bastion of liberalism. The only major city in McLennan County is Waco. They have posted the required No Weapons Allowed signs on the courthouse door, so currently indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sprang into action. He sent a stern letter advising the county judge that not allowing weapons in the courthouse is “a violation of state law.”
McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said he’s not against guns and the county isn’t trying to take away anyone’s second amendment right.
McNamara said if guns were allowed in the courthouse, it would cost the county a lot of money.
“Money wise it costs a lot more. Manpower wise, yes, it would be I feel like an extreme outlay of manpower and money to accomplish what we would need to do to provide safety for our citizens,” said McNamara.
According to McNamara, the county would have to add personnel in the courthouse and would also have to provide lock boxes for the weapons outside each court room.
Best anybody can tell, there’s gonna be a standoff. McLennan County says they will fight the Attorney General and the rightwing Texas Attorney General is saying screw local control. I’m suspecting that both sides will bring guns to the fight.
I guess we could look at it this way – maybe if they allowed shooting inside the courthouse, maybe there would be less shooting outside the courthouse. And the overpopulation of attorneys would not longer be a problem.
Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.
From Shannyn Moore at themudflats.net- . The liberal giant the late Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the Heller decision, “Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
Scalia says no guns in gubmint buildings,which include schools and universities. Watch wingnuts ignore their patron saint’s opinion.
1And as usual, the GOP is all about “local control” until the locals, even other snacilbupeR, do something they don’t like. The DC government is the favorite chew toy of snacilbupeR in Congress. I want the DC government to pass a law saying that Texans can have abortions and marijuana but not guns and see how that goes over.
2Shouldn’t we let folks who are accused of crimes and put in jail pending trial keep their guns in their cells? Lots of bad guys in jails, and folks are presumed innocent until found guilty – so should their 2nd Amendment rights be taken away without a trial?
3I actually feel kinda sorry for the McLennan County Sheriff. He actually sounds like a reasonable guy who has to cope with reality while placating right wing fantasies.
Then again if his job is policing the rural areas of McLennan county I suppose he is used to it.
4No guns in court, Sounds like a RINO to me.
5I suspect that both sides will hissing, spitting and vituperation to the fight.
As usual.
6Yikes! Juanita, isn’t one of your best customers, the one with the nice ‘do, married to an attorney?
7I offer a compromise.
8One can vote ( and hold office, be bonded or be licensed for anything that requires a state/federal or local office license) or own a gun.
Either/or
if somebody is so stupid and scared of their own shadow that they feel the need to pack a gun wherever they go they are obviously too stupid and paranoid to vote or hold any office, be bonded or licensed for anything.
The rePUKEians show what a bunch of lying hypocrites they really are!!! Guns should be allowed everywhere except when they endanger rePUKEians in power!
9As for GOPer lies, there are so many of them! One though stands out for its sheer, sparkling ridiculousness: Hillary was responsible for the death of Princess Diana, in conspiracy with Diana’s enemies. Heavenly days! Don’t you know Hill was seen entering the palace by a back door after dark during the Dodie Fayed/Diana period? Why you could tell it was her from the blond bob and the black coat with the embroidery on the back! See old tape of Lim-paugh for confirmation!
10Just a little reminder, later this year about 150 Bikers are going on trial in that courthouse for the Twin Peaks shoot-out last May. That’s bound to end well. Right?
11I don’t understand. If a bad guy brings in a gun, won’t all the armed good guys protect us from him? Isn’t that the way they insist it works in grocery stores?
12One can’t help but enjoy watching the mess they’ve created for themselves.
13Waco, eh? Well, the Twin Peaks restaurant there closed almost a year ago. Why don’t they just move court over to that site?
14@Ralph Wiggam
Think all the way through your comment/question Ralph. Yes it WILL end well.
15@ Annabelle Lee-another piece from Shannyn Moore’s article –
Sen. Pete Kelly of Fairbanks is pretty sure every university shooting could have been prevented by a gun-toting glory wannabe. Really. When I interviewed Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting, he told me the most offensive thing anyone ever asked him about the shooting was, “Don’t you wish you’d had a gun?” He was shot four times. The University of Alaska doesn’t want guns on their campus — well, at least the “elitists” don’t, according to Kelly. You know, the elitists who want to learn stuff without getting shot..Learning — bad; packing heat — good.
Here is the article in full- http://www.themudflats.net/archives/47069
16Not your best moment, Ms. Bankston. Twenty-four years ago UT law grad and law practice drop out, George Lott, murdered two capable lawyer good guys in a Fort Worth courtroom. Both victims were survived by people who loved them, very much. An apology would be nice.
17@Uncle Dave – With due respect, you may have missed the sarcasm. JJ’s husband is also a lawyer, so she is no doubt sensitive to the peril of weapons in courthouses. As an ordinary citizen these days, I would be leery of walking into any courthouse that didn’t have security screening with a no weapons rule and metal detectors.
18Ken Paxton’s going to be seeing some courthouse or other, the trouble he’s in. So clear the courthouse of judges, juries, secretaries, and anyone who doesn’t want to be there, send Paxton in, and then let into it anyone who wants to take a gun into it for whatever reason. Felons, mentally ill, druggies, anyone who’s got a beef against the “gummint.” If any courthouse employees want to stay in the courthouse for this fandango, they can have guns, too.
If Paxton comes out alive, I’ll bet he changes his mind. If he doesn’t…so much the better.
19Good plan, Ms. Moon. All in favor, say “Aye.”
Aye!!!
20Aye.
21I had a teeny little pocket knife confiscated at the courthouse when I reported for jury duty some years ago. So if they let me in with a gun, will they still confiscate a teeny pocket knife?
22Sorry, Uncle Dave, but WOW. Thin skin much?
24 years ago and you are still brooding and demanding apologies from Miss Juanita Herownself for a joke not even directed at your particular pet issue?
I’m with JJ on this one. No apology necessary. Or even remotely needed by anyone who isn’t looking for offense at every opportunity from the merest whiff of some sort of perceived bygone slight not even related to the people or the issues at hand.
Chill, dude.
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