The afternoon of Monday, August 13, 2012 (shortly after noon, central time) met with another in what seems to be a national outbreak in bizarre shootings.
At the
Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas, a gunman engaged in a battle with local police. The shootout resulted in one dead civilian, one dead police officer (Constable Brian Bachman, pictured above), and the shooter himself. At least two other police officers were injured, and one female bystander was last reported entering emergency surgery. Other injuries and casualties were also reported.
As of the writing of this article, not much more is known. The local police caution that the gunman may not have been operating alone and may have accomplices still at large. The nature of the incident and its cause are still not known. The motivation for the shooting is still obscure. Some of the injured have been treated and had non-life-threatening injuries. Others are in surgery. Three are currently confirmed dead, including the shooter.
What we do know is the firefight broke out when a local constable attempted to serve eviction paperwork.
What can be surmised from analyzing the pattern of the publicized, mass, public shootings over the past few years is that mainstream media pundits are itching to blame this, a shooting in Texas, as a result of relaxed infringements upon the Second Amendment. Texas is known as a rather conservative state. Along with Georgia,
citizens of Texas are stereotyped as gun-toting hicks who shoot empty
whiskey bottles in their back yards during weekend barbecues.
If one watches the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", one
of the more startling caricatures occurs when, during a dinner party,
several Savannah southerners, including one southern belle of some
esteem, proudly display their firearms. Most who concealed carry are not
so flagrant in displaying their firearms. The scene is truly not an
honest depiction of your average Georgian gun owner.
I recently moved to Texas from Arizona. Texas is not that supportive of
Second Amendment Rights. For one thing, you need a permit to carry
concealed. You do not in Arizona. In Texas, open carry is still not
allowed (from what I have seen in the laws -- if this is not correct,
somebody please send me a link to the law stating so). In Arizona, open
carry has been allowed for decades.
But non-Texans still see Texas as a state filled with gun-toting hicks.
Texas Governor Rick Perry ran for the Republican nomination for
President. Texas has taken steps to increase voter integrity and fight
voter fraud. Texas is a "right to work" state. Texas has taken its own
steps to close the border despite US Department of Homeland Security,
Department of Justice, and Presidential Executive Policies that refuse
to do so. That and Operation Fast and Furious issues put Texas "on the
radar".
The above will most likely be spun all over the Lamestream media and NPR
over the next few days to be some other right-wing crazy. they did the
same with the last two major shootings.
Recall the tragic shooting
in Aurora, Colorado a few weeks ago.
That gunman was quickly labeled as a "Tea Party Nutcase". After
investigation, it was found that the shooter was not a member of the TEA
Party. He also was a left-winger.
The last shooting, at the Sikh Temple
in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, was
done by a former US Soldier. That soldier was ejected from the military
with a general (less than an honorable) discharge. He was not a
"normal" soldier. He was booted out for having a few screws loose as
well as being a bit of a discipline case. The Army, it turns out, made
the right decision in kicking him many years ago. The shooter turned out
to be a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi. For those who failed their
basic civics classes on the political spectrum, Nazis are very much left
wingers. They believe in collectivism and socialism over individual
merits. Yet, the lamestream media tried to spin that kooky left-wing
racist as another "right-wing gun nut". Again, they got the story wrong.
Now, in College Station, we have a dead policeman. He was shot by a
criminal. The criminal was also shot and killed. So was an innocent
bystander (shot by the criminal). This was not an act done by a
law abiding citizen. The arguments for stricter gun control are moot.
Criminals who want weapons will pay no attention to any laws in their
efforts to acquire them. If there were tougher laws, such as the UN-Proposed
ATT Small Arms Treaty that is part of the Agenda-21 treaties,
were in place, this criminal would have, more than likely, still had
some form of weapon. It probably would have still been a firearm. He may
have had to pay more for it on the black market. However, the laws and
the treaty would not have stopped him.
Of course, this begs the question of how far this would have gone if law
abiding citizens were allowed to concealed carry on college campuses.
Perhaps one or two fewer people would be dead. Since that is not the
case, we cannot know.
Original Article at Mental Aikido
