It was not a Happy Holiday for 22-year-old Jayachandra Elaprolu (newly
arrived from India only a few months earlier) who was shot 5 times and
killed at the onset of a robbery at a Pasadena convenience store. Is it
allowed to say "Holiday" or "Season" instead of "Christmas" even if we
are talking about a non-Christian kid shot in a robbery? I mean outside Fox News
and Texas anyway. BTW, these violent
a-holes are white guys. OMG! Pasadena gas station clerk shot.
The Houston Chronicle has made headlines this month on not a few
occasions where retail victims have shot and killed robbers to the foot stomping applause of all concerned. I was waiting for updates for parades… The most
attention was given to 52 year old Ramon
Castillo who shot and killed three of them at once using three different weapons. Ramon is recovering in the
hospital from multiple gunshot wounds. East End jewelry store shootout.
Like any arms race things tend to escalate. Let me ask you, if you were
an armed robber of a new movement afoot in which retailers were going to shoot
you as soon as possible, how would you react to that? What would John Dillinger do?
Oh, sorry, like capital punishment you would see that as a deterrent, and like all capital criminals, you will find Jesus, enroll in Technical School and that would the end of violence in Texas. A state not only ENJOYS the highest execution rate but also the highest violent crime rate. We call that "Cowboy Logic", much like the great awaking once arrives at when first moving down to Dumbutt. You no longer have to wonder why cowboys don’t say much for within a matter of days you find it’s because they don’t know much.
My point is not to coddle armed robbers or even decry shooting back, but that here in Texas, we are so consumed by guns that no one – not even our
Republican Lite newspaper – can question the cause and effect of this. For as we all know, down here in Texas and most of the rest of yokel American, it is a matter of
how many guns one has, how big they are, how fast they can fire and how quick on the trigger one is.
Everything else is secondary, especially education.