The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for Jan. 22, 2013

by David Muto
January 22, 2013
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January 22 @ 5:25 p.m.

Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/22/1480001/multiple-students-wounded-in-texas-school-shooting/
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January 22 @ 5:28 p.m.

Jason Stradtner via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Gang related?
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January 22 @ 5:31 p.m.

Rob Turk via Texas Tribune on Facebook

"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, from the first draft of the constitution for Virginia. I'm sure glad the founding fathers are not around to see what you folks have done to their dream of a free nation. End gun-free zones NOW!!!
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January 22 @ 5:34 p.m.

Steve Cook via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Your right Rob because all the other shootings in Texas in the past 24 hours all happened in "Gun Free Zones" tsk.
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January 22 @ 5:36 p.m.

Elaine Dennis Adkison via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I'm sure they will say the shooting today is a conspiracy against their ignorant bills.
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January 22 @ 5:36 p.m.

Arthur M. Thomas IV via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Always sad when we see members of society turn on each other. We should work towards ending that and start by reminding each other that government isn't a tool for us to turn on one another either.
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January 22 @ 5:43 p.m.

Casey Bennett via Texas Tribune on Facebook

@Steve Cook....mind explaining why the Media is so adamantly reporting the shootings at schools? Just exactly how many shooting were there in Texas in the last 24 hours?
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January 22 @ 5:45 p.m.

Steven Felfe via Texas Tribune on Facebook

One claim by the Fed is that this was gang related.
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January 22 @ 8:03 p.m.

Samdavis

If people shoot people as the NRA keeps repeating, then how did those people get shot? Had to be a handgun somewhere.

Racism and pro gun sentiments seem to go hand in hand. Rob, I'll bet you liked that Jefferson statement (which is not quoted in context) because of the word "freeman".
January 24 @ 10:47 a.m.

Dale Curry

@ Rob Turk - I'm sure glad the founding fathers are not around to see watch you folks at the NRA sacrifice our children so you can have a gun that delivers some god awful amount armor piercing bullets from a gun that is used to hunt humans.