Wow what a sad story...Seems it was a racially motivated hate crime, tho the article did not mention it as such. Hope they find the scumbags!!
Beaumont did not seem like a very nice town, but gun buybacks do nothing to reduce crime—they just un-arm ignorant liberals who turn in their firearms thinking they are doing something responsible.
I was just surprised to see this in any TX town—except for Austin which I know is quite liberal.
Texas is turning into blue cities surrounded by red rural areas, and not just Austin either. Houston has (or had) a lesbian mayor. San Antonio is Democrat-controlled (the previous mayor was an unapologetic Marxist). Dallas has a Democrat mayor. Houston and Beaumont are home to violent black street gangs, many of whom were Katrina refugees.
Texas is not the conservative paradise it used to be. Not the big cities, anyways.