Posted on 01/26/2010 1:23:06 PM PST by wolfcreek
Last Thursday at around noon, a 24-year-old Houston man identified as Fausto Cardenas was arrested by Texas State Troopers for firing a gun outside the Texas Capitol. The suspect was also seen inside trying to gain access to District 7 (Houston) State Senator Dan Patrick’s office a few minutes earlier. Senator Patrick’s office aide said Cardenas was acting strangely and denied him access.
For over a year, Senator Dan Patrick has been advocating for the Texas National Guard to be placed on the border with Mexico to fight the drug cartels and illegal immigration.
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Ping!
It was only a matter of time. If you come between a man or many men and several hundreds of billions of dollars, it’s only a matter of time before you become a target.
People will die when we finally try to get control of the border, but we must.
Crazy. The only reason a sane cartel member would dare do this is because they know Obama wouldn’t respond with violence. If we had a President to lead, this should enrage all Americans.
TX capitol ping.
Bump.
This was the latest info I could find. Anybody got other info?
Dan hasn’t said too much about this incident since he made the announcement on his twitter page. “Under investigation” and all that, but I don’t think the shooter was too bright.
If he was trying to gain access to the Senator’s office...
Apparently “no” worked...
And the stretching the rag is trying to imply has apparently not panned out, yet...
It sure would be a clever idea to lock up access to our elected officials to try and establish a connection between a drug cartel (sounds ominous) and this idiot who went outside and had a temper tantrum, and put a few divots in the pink granite...
Jeeze—this is really scary. I think I’ll just stay in my house with all guns loaded.
Not really, but now that I know about these people, I’ll be a lot more careful of where I go and who’s around me.
Wow, good find Wolf. The guys pics at the article look kind of similar. It seems we’re getting it from all sides, foreign and domestic.
“I don’t think the shooter was too bright.”
Kind of like the idiot youngsters AQ sends abroad to do their dirty work.
Yeah, he looked like the baitshop store owner’s son who played with the worms too much...
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