We don't need no stinkin guns in Pasadena

Calvin Wayne Inman, a Pasadena Texas youth minister at an 800 member Pentacostal Church, surrendered to police for the fatal stabbing of a convenience store clerk fourteen years ago. Today's Houston Chronicle reported that the admitted killer confessed to pulling a large kitchen knife out of his pants to rob and murder 64 year old package store owner Iqbal Ahmed for a little cash and some smokes.

With three high profile gun cases in the city already this year, the Pasadena knifing from the early '90s can serve to remind us of more simpler times when Texans with middle names of Ray or Earl or Wayne didn't immediately resort to gun violence.

Because his accomplice was 13 years old at the time, Pasadena police spokesperson Vance Mitchell said they cannot prosecute his partner using current Texas law, but must adhere to 1994 juvenile laws. This sticking to the letter of the law will no doubt infuriate Republican residential candidate Ron Paul over in the next county, who holds well-known opinions on treating teenagers just like adults.

So next time the subject of guns comes up, just remember Ahmed asking a teenager for proper ID at the Mutmaz Grocery in Pasadena TX -- guns don't kill people, cigarettes do.