Results tagged “secondamendment”

Need to know just a little bit about something? Ask a dilettante. This was a rough week for the gun lobby. Federal “safeguards” didn't stop a very disturbed young man in Virginia from being able to purchase guns that he later used to kill lots of people. Though there has been no official statement from the NRA, many pundits, talk radio callers and a guy sitting at a bar in Houston who was overheard by...

It's no secret that Texans like their guns — why, Houstonist is packing heat right this second, because hey, you just never know. Even so, businesses can (and do) prevent people from carrying concealed weapons into their buildings, and now Houston-based ConocoPhillips is trying to get guns barred from parking lots, too. Drunks getting arrested in bars, guns getting banned from parking lots — what next? They won't let us park our horses in the median? Oh, wait.

Houstonist noted yesterday the at least 11 — no, wait, at least 14 homicides reported in Houston during the Thanksgiving weekend, which pushed the 2005 murder total over last year's: With 14 slayings over the Thanksgiving weekend, Houston has surpassed the number of homicides for all of last year, adding to the concern of police officials who this summer created a task force to address a potential surge in violence. As of midnight Sunday, Houston...