Welcome to Texas. Don't make any sudden moves.

vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas.

Derp.

As a Michigan Open Carry supporter: Texas gun laws actually really suck.

If only armed law enforcement officers were allowed near the courthouse, this would not have happened.

vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas.

Keep pushing that, unsupported by any actual evidence, myth. Cops hit more innocent bystanders than LTCers

vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas.

nah we all have six shooters and fan the hammer to fire faster. makes it really inaccurate so fatalities are usually low. sometimes people get trampled by all the horses that get spooked by the gunfire though. takes a while to telegraph the sherriff to show up so sometimes we're able to reload and do it again. also sometimes "yeehaw" is yelled for no reason.

Good to see that death penalty thing is working out so well in crime prevention....

vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas.

Please link an instance of this happening.

We were shootin'. They were shootin'. Kids were cryin'. Cops a comin'. Me a runnin'.

Guess we better call off the picnic.

I was expecting something more like "Gunman kills one, thirty five bystanders kill gunman", but I guess since it was over lunch break....

Wanted for questioning.

As a Texan, I can assure you that every day this happens.

Ringshadow: As a Michigan Open Carry supporter: Texas gun laws actually really suck.

Elaborate. Bonus points for relating your hollow snark to this specific incident. Remember - it's not up to me to prove they don't. You made the affirmative statement, now prove it.

vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas.

I know that's a popular stupid lefty fantasy, but you do realized that it's essentially never happened, right? I mean, outside of Narnia or wherever people of your weirdly delusional political sect lives.

//"Essentially" because the cops accidentally hit bystanders all the time. Can't find a single report of a civilian carrying concealed doing it, though, probably because 90% of the training for the license is an explanation for how you're 100% liable for anything you hit downfield of your target.

holdeestrufs: Ringshadow: As a Michigan Open Carry supporter: Texas gun laws actually really suck.

Elaborate. Bonus points for relating your hollow snark to this specific incident. Remember - it's not up to me to prove they don't. You made the affirmative statement, now prove it.

You can get arrested in Texas for imprinting while carrying concealed.

Now tell me how that DOESN'T suck.

/meanwhile, in MI, my brother mows the lawn while wearing an assault rifle
//or he will be, once the lawn comes out of its winter coma

White trash.

NightOwl2255: arcsecond: vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas.

Keep pushing that, unsupported by any actual evidence, myth. Cops hit more innocent bystanders than LTCers

Here's a LTCer that killed his 3 year old kid. (new window) Kind of.

Your kid getting hold of your gun and shooting himself with it does make you an irresponsible asshole, but it's in no way what the dude was talking about. He was claiming that bystanders are routinely injured by CCP holders in shootouts with criminal assailants, assumably because he's too stupid to realize that if you're in handgun range, you can talk to your target.

wambu: The gunman grabbed a weapon from his vehicle in a nearby parking lot

Great. Now our cars will be searched before we can park at the courthouse. It's not enough I have to take off my belt and not carry my cell-phone in order to enter..

Actually keeping your gun in your car is explicitly legal in Texas even if you're unlicensed. It becomes illegal if you remove it from the car either without a license to carry or in an exclusion zone (a courthouse is one).

So, gun in your passenger seat = dumb, but legal. Taking the gun out into the parking lot of a courthouse/hospital/school = no longer legal.

//Proper handling is to have the gun secured and somewhere people outside the car can't see it, but it's not a legal requirement.

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Floyd Allen (new window) says: "Pfft... amateur"

Holy crap,did you notice the date of this shooting? 14 March 1912: a hundred years ago today.

Now that's a party.

NightOwl2255: arcsecond: vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas.

Keep pushing that, unsupported by any actual evidence, myth. Cops hit more innocent bystanders than LTCers

Here's a LTCer that killed his 3 year old kid. (new window) Kind of.

A 3-year-old scrambled out of his child seat after his parents stopped for gas early Wednesday, found a gun police say was left in the car by his father and fatally shot himself in the head.

aaand a swing and a miss. go ahead. try again, on the house.

Ringshadow: You can get arrested in Texas for imprinting while carrying concealed.

Now tell me how that DOESN'T suck.

Imprinting? The thing where young ducklings will follow a human around because they think it's Mom?

Yogimus: A 3-year-old scrambled out of his child seat after his parents stopped for gas early Wednesday, found a gun police say was left in the car by his father and fatally shot himself in the head.

aaand a swing and a miss.

Does that happen often to people who don't carry around loaded handguns? Give us some numbers, please.

Ringshadow: holdeestrufs: Ringshadow: As a Michigan Open Carry supporter: Texas gun laws actually really suck.

Elaborate. Bonus points for relating your hollow snark to this specific incident. Remember - it's not up to me to prove they don't. You made the affirmative statement, now prove it.

You can get arrested in Texas for imprinting while carrying concealed.

Now tell me how that DOESN'T suck.

/meanwhile, in MI, my brother mows the lawn while wearing an assault rifle
//or he will be, once the lawn comes out of its winter coma

Actually, in Texas you could walk down main street with that same loaded assault rifle slung over your shoulder and it is completely legal. No requirement whatsoever to be on your own property. As long as you don't conceal or attempt to conceal a long gun you can go just about anywhere you want with it, with some exceptions..

jaytkay: Yogimus: A 3-year-old scrambled out of his child seat after his parents stopped for gas early Wednesday, found a gun police say was left in the car by his father and fatally shot himself in the head.

aaand a swing and a miss.

Does that happen often to people who don't carry around loaded handguns? Give us some numbers, please.

you put that goalpost back where you found it, and try again.

This incident means that we must get rid of the 2nd amendment forever. I voted for Barack Obama, and these are my beliefs.

/the only real amendment is the 1st Amendment, except if you say something that hurts my feelings

Hatorade:

Actually, in Texas you could walk down main street with that same loaded assault rifle slung over your shoulder and it is completely legal. No requirement whatsoever to be on your own property. As long as you don't conceal or attempt to conceal a long gun you can go just about anywhere you want with it, with some exceptions..

Don't tell him, but the thing about printing is wrong too. You have to intentionally fail to conceal your firearm in Texas to be in violation.


... So I guess, if you were wearing a spandex shirt over your gun you might get busted for printing... Otherwise you are pretty safe as long as you make some effort to conceal the gun.

Paris1127: Scaevola: Paris1127: [web3.encyclopediavirginia.org image 339x500]
Floyd Allen (new window) says: "Pfft... amateur"

Holy crap,did you notice the date of this shooting? 14 March 1912: a hundred years ago today.

*Twilight Zone music* That's really freaky, I hadn't noticed... I hadn't RTFA in a while...

First thing I thought of when I heard this.
And no, I didn't realize it was the same date 100 years later.

Yogimus Smartest Funniest
2012-03-14 10:49:52 PM

jaytkay: Yogimus: A 3-year-old scrambled out of his child seat after his parents stopped for gas early Wednesday, found a gun police say was left in the car by his father and fatally shot himself in the head.

aaand a swing and a miss.

Does that happen often to people who don't carry around loaded handguns? Give us some numbers, please.

you put that goalpost back where you found it, and try again.

Nicely done sir.

Hatorade: Actually, in Texas you could walk down main street with that same loaded assault rifle slung over your shoulder and it is completely legal.

Except for the whole inciting a riot and terroristic threat thing.

Kar98: Except for the whole inciting a riot and terroristic threat thing.

Why would a rational person like yourself have such a reaction to seeing a gun?

vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas Arizona.

FTFM

Jim_Callahan: vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas.

I know that's a popular stupid lefty fantasy, but you do realized that it's essentially never happened, right? I mean, outside of Narnia or wherever people of your weirdly delusional political sect lives.

//"Essentially" because the cops accidentally hit bystanders all the time. Can't find a single report of a civilian carrying concealed doing it, though, probably because 90% of the training for the license is an explanation for how you're 100% liable for anything you hit downfield of your target.

Quick searched turned up one Mr. Edward Bell, LTC holder of Detroit, who accidentally shot and killed one Geraldine Jackson with a stray bullet as she was cooking dinner while Mr. Bell was shooting at fleeing men who had just robbed him.

My personal feeling is that it's a statistical blip, but it's a skosh more than "never".

GoldSpider: Kar98: Except for the whole inciting a riot and terroristic threat thing.

Why would a rational person like yourself have such a reaction to seeing a gun?

I would not.

People who can't handle drugs shouldn't do reality.

falcon176: vpb: I would have expected "Gunman kills 1, armed bystanders kill 13". THAT sounds like Texas.

nah we all have six shooters and fan the hammer to fire faster. makes it really inaccurate so fatalities are usually low. sometimes people get trampled by all the horses that get spooked by the gunfire though. takes a while to telegraph the sherriff to show up so sometimes we're able to reload and do it again. also sometimes "yeehaw" is yelled for no reason.

Everyone should be required to carry cap and ball revolvers. Six shots and then everyone gets 30 minutes to think about it and calm down while reloading.

Jim_Callahan: He was claiming that bystanders are routinely injured by CCP holders in shootouts with criminal assailants, assumably because he's too stupid to realize that if you're in handgun range, you can talk to your target.

Or he was making a joke. At least that's what I got out of it.

Approves.