Two gunmen killed outside Muhammad cartoon contest [self defense in Texas]

Associated Press/New York Post ^ | May 3, 2015

[grundle]

GARLAND, Texas — Two armed men who opened fire on a security officer outside of a provocative contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad have been killed, authorities in the Dallas suburb of Garland said Sunday night.

The City of Garland said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Sunday night that two men drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center and began shooting at a security officer.

Garland Police Department officers engaged the gunmen, who were both shot and killed, the statement said.

The New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative had been hosting a contest at the center that would award $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

In January, 12 people were killed by gunmen in an attack against the Paris office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had lampooned Islam and other religions and used depictions of Muhammad.

[Old Yeller]

What I want to know is did the illegal invaders from the Middle East have fully automatic AK-47’s like the all carry in their homeland?

[demshateGod]

The important thing now is that they get a proper Islamic burial.

[Does so]

Excellent shooting by that security guard!

Using a revolver! (Not that there's anything wrong with that).

[Does so]

Snopes has this reply:

This statement is a rewording of a passage from page 261 of The Audacity of Hope, in which Barack Obama spoke of the importance of not allowing inflamed public opinion to result in innocent members of immigrant groups being stripped of their rights, denied their due as American citizens, or placed into confinement, as was done with Japanese-Americans during World War II. The original contains no specific mention of "Muslims":

Now I direct your attention to the subject—"Arab and Pakistani-Americans" (nominally Muslims)—and delete the inconsequential strike-throughs—you can see that the "misquote" is brief, but accurate...

"In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/coilofrage.asp#qHXPJtLQRo8JtdOU.99

[ansel12]

Go sleep it off.