Texas gun bills taking us back to Old West days

star-telegram.com ^ | 3/20/2015 | Bob Ray Sanders

[rktman]

Oh, how I wish Texas lawmakers cared as much about our children as they do their guns.

And wouldn’t it be terrific if the folks who represent us in Austin despised injustice as much as they do immigration and taxes?

I suppose, given the makeup of our state Legislature and the leadership in the top statewide offices, that’s a little too much to hope for.

It is no surprise that new gun legislation has been put on a fast track at the Capitol, sailing through committee and floor votes with ease, while our underfunded public schools likely will languish.

[umgud]

Agreed

[FlingWingFlyer]

Bobbie Ray sounds like he/she may be a “poof!”

[TXnMA]

"Well one thing’s for sure, I think of some way of using that money to make sure my kids could read in cursive."

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Outstanding comment! Usually,articles are about ceasing to teach how to write cursive.

When no one can read cursive, history will effectively begin at that point in time.

Stalin-style history revision!

[demshateGod]

“Outstanding comment!”

Thanks. It would have been better had I proofread.

[al_c]

Not sure about Obama’s other 7 ... they haven’t been found yet ... but I didn’t count Texas as it is the subject of this article.

[rktman]

LOL? I think he has a secret hiding place.

[Milton Miteybad]

Good ol’ Bob Ray Sanders...still trying to use dog feces for brains, and still, after all these years, managing to fool himself into thinking it’s actually working for him.

[Professional Engineer]

We homeschool as well. Moved from the district with that $65 million hole in the head stadium. The one full of cracks, and can’t be used. Good riddance.

We love to have our taxes back and use as need for the chil’run.

[rktman]

Well, he is (I guess) gettin’ a paycheck for his dumping of wheelbarrows full of manure.

[Red in Blue PA]

This is great news!

Dispelling the myth of the “wild west”

In his book, Frontier Violence: Another Look, author W. Eugene Hollon, provides us with these astonishing facts:
•In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
•In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.

Zooming forward over a century to 2007, a quick look at Uniform Crime Report statistics shows us the following regarding the aforementioned gun control “paradise” cities of the east:

•DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents)
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Baltimore – 281 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents)
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Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)

It doesn’t take an advanced degree in statistics to see that a return to “wild west” levels of violent crime would be a huge improvement for the residents of these cities.

The truth of the matter is that the “wild west” wasn’t wild at all … not compared to a Saturday night in Newark.

http://www.examiner.com/article/dispelling-the-myth-of-the-wild-west

[Red in Blue PA]

Tried sending a letter but........

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently

[rktman]

Any stats from Abilene etc for the same ‘07 period?

[rktman]

Like that was unexpected? You KNOW they don’t want to be contacted by folks like us. :>}

[jospehm20]

Going back to the old west in terms of crime rates seems like a good thing to me.

[Redbob]

Same kind of arguments were trotted out - by the same people - when concealed carry was being debated.

And of course were proven wrong.

Dimocrats in the legislature have really got their knickers in a wad over the fact these bills are going to pass and there’s not a thing they can do to stop them!

I attended a session of the Senate one day last week when Sen. Craig Estes’ open-carry bill was being debated, and it got downright acrimonious in there. Estes kept his cool, and I only realized later is was because he knew his bill was going to pass regardless of what the other side said or did.
And it did, 20 - 11.

[PapaBear3625]

I suspect that it's not that Bob-Ray is against guns, but that he's against white people being able to defend themselves.

[rktman]

Same crap in FLA in (I think) ‘87 when they came up with the common statewide carrry laws. OMG! Bodies everywhere. Tourists will never come here now. Streets will be awash with blood of innocents. Blah, blah, blah.

[Steve0113]

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