Texas, Where the Blood Is Always Flowing

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

It can be the slowest news day in the history of journalism, but there will be stories of gun carnage coming out of Texas.  The Lone Star State is armed to the eyeballs with all manner of firearms, and Texans are not afraid, nor reluctant, to use their massive personal firepower to sort the world out according to their personal beliefs.

Yesterday I wrote about Daniel Perry, an active duty US Army sergeant who moonlights as an Uber driver in the Austin area.   While some facts of the Perry case remain in dispute, they apparently were not in dispute to the jury who recently heard and evaluated all of the evidence surrounding the shooting.  Sgt. Perry did drive into a Black Lives Matter demonstration three years ago, for whatever reason, roll down his window, and then fired his legal pistol at a legally armed protester multiple times - and killed the man.  This past April an Austin area jury found Sgt. Perry guilty of murder - by a unanimous vote.   Perry, who claimed that he thought the protestor was going to aim his rifle at him, claimed his innocence in accordance with the Texas stand-your-ground law.

Fox News  did not like the Perry verdict, and they got Governor Abbott stirred up - and the governor has vowed to pardon the shooter just as soon as the Texas Board of Pardons gives him official cover to reverse the unanimous jury verdict.   The victim, remember, was a protestor with Black Lives Matter - not a regular Texan - and Abbott, who is a regular Texas politician, knows exactly how his toast is buttered.

Today there are a couple of more Texas shootings of an outrageous nature in the news.  

First is the story of a 26-year-old Texas woman and mother of multiple young children who found herself pregnant again, a medical condition with which she was not happy.    Texas, a land where the blood from gun violence never stops flowing, is staunchly "pro-life," and the only abortions currently occurring in the state are for "medical emergencies."   The lady had to go to Colorado to get her medical procedure.   Upon returning to the Texas, her boyfriend, and presumably the father of child, shot his girlfriend dead.   

The shooter has been arrested and charged with murder.  There is no word yet on whether the governor will feel compelled to meddle in this case or not, but it has enough political trappings that he may not be able to resist.  Fox News, what say you?

And this past Saturday night a twenty-year-old inebriated young man decided that the parking lot of the  Sonic Drive-In in the small town of Keene, Texas, would be a good place to get out of his vehicle and relieve himself.   A 32-year-old male worker at the Sonic happened to look up and see the guy hosing down the parking lot - and went outside to confront him.  Unfortunately, the public nuisance was not alone.  While the Sonic employee was trying to get the situation under control, a passenger in the man's vehicle reached for an assault rifle and fired six rounds at the meddlesome employee.  The shooter was a twelve-years-old boy.

The Sonic employee who died in the shooting was the father of a ten-year-old son.  

The shooter and his drunken driver fled the scene and were arrested later that night. Both have been charged with murder.

Texas.  Bloody fucking Texas.