The Brief: Top Texas News for Aug. 14, 2012
The Big Conversation:
Monday's deadly shooting near Texas A&M University has inevitably touched off yet another round of national debate over gun rights.
According to local authorities, a gunman in College Station on Monday afternoon opened fire on police after receiving an eviction notice, killing two people, including a constable, and injuring four others. The gunman, whom police shot and killed, was later identified as Thomas Caffall, 35, who appears to have left an online trail.
Following the Colorado movie theater massacre in July and the attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Aug. 5, the College ...
Comments (16)
Michelle Michon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
How about more access to mental health and social services? People are right, it's not a "gun" issue.
Michelle Michon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And you don't have a quote from our President? Just like you cover Cruz as if he's won. As if Paul Sadler isn't even in the running. Real tired of the bias of the Texas Tribune. - Seventh Generation TEXAN
Kelly Grossman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We have had a breakdown of morals and values, right and wrong, and not teaching children that there are consequences for their actions, in this country and it's effects are being seen.
Michelle Michon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
People with mental health issues sometimes don't know what is right or what is wrong.
Donald Dickson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Mr. Romney will say anything to get elected. As Governor of Massachusetts he favored stringent gun control legislation.
Michael Alvard via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Clearly they should issue handguns to all incoming Aggies at fish camp.
Richard Salvucci via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Does Romney believe in anything???
Jill Meredith Bergene via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The NRA had done a great job of convincing people that guns are harmless. That old saw...."guns don't kill people" is the best lie ever brainwashed into people's puny brains.
Cliff McSparran via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"The killer in Texas yesterday. He liked Facebook pages called - I will not vote for Obama in 2012, Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and answered a poll question by Bill O'reilly - At this time, who would you support for the Republican nomination? Michele Bachmann." True.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Since when is mental illness a "choice"?
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Start with understanding this, Mittens: the guy had a gun available to him, and that's 99% of why. Otherwise there would have been a choice between using his left fist or his right fist to fight the officer knocking on his door with an eviction notice.
I don't know how your world works, Mitt the Twit, and i don't have $10,000 in my pocket at any given time to bet Rick Perry with, like you; but if I were a betting man I would bet the officer LIVES today if the guy didn't happen to have a gun.
This was not a premeditated, prepared shootout; you can't make excuses for it the way your kind (the kind bought up, brainwashed by the NRA, that's right) always makes excuse for.
Phillip Beck via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hey, Mitt can't be wrong on this issue. he's taking both sides.
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Mass murders do not use knives....
Jay Joiner via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I know how to prevent the choice these people make to buy assault rifles.
Samdavis
Hard to kill three people and wound 4 more with a club. With a gun.....
Mr. P
If readers and the Texas Tribune truly cared about gun violence, they would demand full disclosure of how 5000 assault rifles were walked across the border and used used to murder over 20,000 Mexican citizens.
But in this election year hypocrites don't care about murdered Mexican citizens, only about hiding the truth and holding on to power. If they were your relatives you would feel betrayed. What is executive privilege hiding?
Everything today is politicized. Who will speak up for you when the time comes.