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10581. robertjayb - 12/28/2012 2:58:22 AM Texas Tower revisited...
AUSTIN — The Austin police officer who helped stop Charles Whitman's 1966 sniper rampage from atop the University of Texas tower has died.
Houston McCoy fired two blasts from his shotgun to bring down Whitman, who killed 16 people during nearly two hours of terror on the UT campus. Wayne Vincent, president of the Austin Police Association, said McCoy died Thursday in the rural West Texas town of Menard.
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An interesting (then and now) sidebar to the story told of motorists along Guadalupe Street (UT's main drag) who pulled deer rifles from their vehicles and either joined in the suppressing fire or gave the guns to cops.
10582. robertjayb - 12/28/2012 5:04:11 AM This lengthy Wikipedia account of the sniper Charles_Whitman and other similar incidents is an eerie but interesting and informative read in this time so soon after Sandy Hook.
Just giving it a quick skim I briefly thought I detected some commonality among the shooters and the Oklahoma City bomber. But maybe I'm nutty too. I think it is a good piece and I will go over it again. 10583. robertjayb - 12/28/2012 5:31:24 AM Sorry. Can't make a working link. If you are interested try Charles Whitman on Wikipedia. 10584. iiibbb - 12/28/2012 5:59:29 AM L.A. Morons pay $100 for useless tubes in buyback program
What hacks. They will score tons of points with the gun-control nutjubs... except these "rocket launchers" are single-use meant-to-be-discarded non-reloadable tubes with buttons on them. 10585. robertjayb - 12/28/2012 6:52:07 AM 
General Halftrack and I have the same condition.
10586. arkymalarky - 12/31/2012 3:24:21 AM Hillary Clinton is in the hospital with a blood clot. 10587. Wombat - 12/31/2012 3:53:04 AM She'll do anything to avoid testifying about Benghazi, right Concerned? 10588. judithathome - 12/31/2012 6:26:47 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent to the hospital on Sunday with a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier this month and was being assessed by doctors, a State Department spokesman said.
"In the course of a follow-up exam today, Secretary Clinton's doctors discovered a blood clot had formed, stemming from the concussion she sustained several weeks ago," spokesman Philippe Reines said in a statement.
"She is being treated with anti-coagulants and is at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital so that they can monitor the medication over the next 48 hours," Reines said, adding that doctors would continue to assess her condition.
This is a serious condition; my mother died of a blood clot going to her lung.
10589. thoughtful - 12/31/2012 6:43:43 PM You're right...this kind of thing could be very serious...it could travel to the brain as well...that poor woman has been working herself to an absolute frazzle. I'm surprised she hung in as long as she did. That travel schedule she had is not healthy no matter how comfortably you get there. 10590. judithathome - 12/31/2012 6:46:50 PM The hunky doctor on CNN whose name I cannot spell said the blood clot might have formed due to the imposed rest and inactivity she was on after the recent concussion. 10591. judithathome - 1/12/2013 9:41:58 PM Anyone see this asshole?
Gun Nut Threatens Death
The officials in the city where he lives cancelled his concealed-carry permit after this ran yesterday...gee, that makes me feel SOOOOO much safer. 10592. arkymalarky - 1/13/2013 1:23:05 AM He's really squirming now. He'll be lucky if that's all that happens to him. I always hated that whole Billy Badass act. It's funny when they show the fear that makes them act that way in the first place. Like how Ted Nugent got out of Vietnam. The loudest tough talkers are almost always the biggest cowards, Dick Cheney. 10593. iiibbb - 1/13/2013 3:09:54 AM Message # 10591
One reason I love freedom of speech. People use it.
I have(had) a concealed permit... why?... because the laws in my state governing possession of a firearm can vary from municipality to municipality; the laws governing permit holders are uniform across the state. So basically I got it in order to prevent me from being the victim of an overzealous police officer if I inadvertently break a law I don't know.
The other reason is the areas that I hunt down there do have sightings of feral dogs. Given that I am miles from anywhere and my rifle is just a single shot, I carry a handgun with 15 rounds in it (I don't want to much around with changing magazines if I'm dealing with dogs).
So that's that.
But people paint all concealed carry permitted holders as nutballs because of this idiot.
But at the end of the day, permit holders should be lauded by gun control people... we get trained... we get vetted by the state with a background check that goes pretty deep... and we are registered with the state.
Instead, this guy becomes the standard bearer. 10594. arkymalarky - 1/13/2013 4:07:30 AM He's a big fraud anyway. He doesn't have the credentials he claimed. If he makes it clear from being in trouble for inciting violence against the government, being exposed as a fake expert won't help his "business." 10595. Wombat - 1/13/2013 10:47:17 PM Maybe if gun owners spent more time condemning the NRA and ass-clowns like the guy above, they wouldn't get lumped in with them. Sister Souljah moment anyone? 10596. arkymalarky - 1/14/2013 12:23:59 AM I thought that's what this gun owner just did! 10597. arkymalarky - 1/14/2013 12:25:35 AM Organizations like hunting groups might step up, but most aren't familiar with any group but the NRA. 10598. iiibbb - 1/14/2013 2:15:09 AM I thought that's what I just did too.
Maybe if anti gun people took the time to listen to what normal gun people said instead of these freaks the press lines up for them they would have a better sense of what a real gun owner is like instead of letting their imaginations get the better of them. 10599. arkymalarky - 1/14/2013 2:46:28 AM Lots of people own guns and don't object to changes. For us it's a necessity of country living. You don't have animal control out here. Nothing they're talking about doing would affect us, and if it doesn't work at least they're trying something. There is a segment of nuts that's arming to the teeth who illustrate the need rather than advocating their views. There's not a thing in this country that isn't regulated. Guns shouldn't be the exception. 10600. arkymalarky - 1/14/2013 2:49:36 AM Because most average gun owners don't belong to any groups, crazies and the NRA are the only gun owner voices .
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