HEADS UP HOUSTON
Posted on 06/16/2002 10:07:13 AM PDT by Marauder
Harris County sheriff's Deputy Shane Bennett paid with his life this week for our state's lack of gun laws. Shot during a home invasion, he was one of three deputies shot in the line of duty in recent weeks in Harris County. Tommy J. Bohannon's shooting (June 9) and Harris County Deputy Robert Spurgeon's shooting (May 15) make Harris County the deadliest in the U.S.
Members of violent gangs use guns to inflict terror on citizens and peace officers, although Texas voters have the ability to take these gangs' firepower away.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reports that Texas ranks No. 1 in the number of gun shows held yearly and fourth in gun trafficking.
Voters in Texas should care enough about our law enforcement officers and the safety of our homes and neighborhoods to pass a state law requiring something as sensible and enforceable as background checks for gun purchasers at gun shows.
This would mean that Texas would no longer tolerate allowing anyone - even those prohibited by federal law from purchasing guns - to buy guns at gun shows with "no questions asked."
Asking for these background checks at gun shows would put us in good company. A variety of national and state organizations - including the U.S. Association of Police Organizations, the League of Cities and the National Education Association all have endorsed similar legislation.
A recent poll shows that 86 percent of Americans support background checks at gun shows.
If anyone needs more convincing to support such a law, here are a few more reasons: Requiring background checks would not only make guns less available to criminals, but would reduce the number of illegal guns in circulation and increase the ability of law enforcement to enforce current laws.
It would also reduce the risk of gun violence for the mentally disturbed and young people.
And, decreasing illegal gun trafficking would, of course, help to better protect our peace officers
Well, that's the democRat way. They learned it from the Soviets - their mentors - who used the process of inculcation to convince the sheeple of the correctness of their cause.
Simply stated, inculcation means tell a lie often enough and it will eventually be believed. They employ this method in the media, entertainment, and education.
Where is Joseph McCarthy now that we need him?
The really incredible aspect of The Democrat Way is that they try to disarm us during wartime. How paralyzingly stupid can they be?
HEADS UP HOUSTON
Anyone who considers the NEA good company should be distrusted outright. They don't mind teaching "safe sex" and condom use to those too young to understand it. the NEA is as left as they come.
Just as they should.
DAMN IT!
BUMP!
Now you have me stuttering on the keyboard.
Will you be joining us Thursday as we FReep these gun grabbers?
I bet the Comical is still lying about their circulation numbers as well.
Flyer my FRiend......you are a Beauty
True story - at a left wing meeting that was infiltrated, the liberals blasted the Chronicle for being a conservative mouthpiece.
More like white-shoe Republican. Fiscally conservative, socially liberal ("planter liberalism" it used to be called before "the recent unpleasantness"), and wholly devoted to the Chamber of Commerce, the Bush family political machine, the local bipartisan (but becoming more 'Rat) political machine, and the Boys Downtown generally.
Huh? I thought the Post was even more liberal than the Chron......I read it for the columnists, some of whom were real conservatives. But you don't remember Juan Palomo and all that bunch? Tatcho Mindiola had a regular Thursday column in the Hispanic-affairs supplement. That's where I read for the first time about the Aztlanists (I think he is one) and their strategy. Mindiola and Palomo (who outed himself in his column, then called in the Gay Political Caucus and did a power play, and got himself reinstated) were always going on about Crystal City and the "brown power" model. Palomo writes for the Dallas Morning News now, of course. Don't you remember all the liberal bomb-throwers they had on staff?
Sadly, most of the names of the Post columnist fail me. ATM, all I can remember is Leon Hale, Lynn Ashby, Ken Hoffman, Tim Grissom, and that the comics were always much better than the Comical's. I guess you realy couldn't call either one conservative, but the Post was the least liberal, for lots of years, specifically when it was under Sterling/Hobby control.
Excellent point. A striking number of police deaths and other mishaps (shooting a civilian mistaken for a perp) are actually leadership and training issues. If the police administration too busy to train beat cops in tactical awareness and proper self defense techniques the department as a whole will suffer. Citizens and patrolmen will die.
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