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AEA wrote:UhOh.......

I can hear the Brady Bunch now!
"Drunken CHL Holder with gun visible in car arrested by Houston Police. Individual had an AUTOMATIC Pistol with deadly Hollow Point bullets in an EXTENDED CLIP"

Even better...are those the deadly Hollow Point bullets that are "against the Geneva Convention"? Ha ha ha...

Remember you are representing all of us and the media loves a good story. I'm surprised that they didn't credit the police with proactively stopping a deadly terrorist attack.

snatchel wrote:Folks just dont learn! This morning Wifey and I were coming back from the adoration chapel --we have the 12 to 1 a.m shift--and we see a eclipse that has a trashed front end, and a young, leggy girl in a miniskirt getting a field sobriety test. We are sitting at the red light watching this poor girl trying to stagger through the straight line test in 3 inch heels, and abruptly fall on her hind-end. Suffice to say that Everyone watching knew exactly what color underwear she was wearing.

I wish i had a video camera, if every college girl in this town saw this drunken girl so incredibly intoxicated that she was falling over flashing her nether regions for all to see, maybe they would make some sense of it and realize they dont want to be there. Sad to see such a gorgeous girl going down like that...you almost want to feel sorry for her.

Problem is: they just won't learn anyway. The week I turned 18 I joined a volunteer fire department, partly because of the cheap beer in the fridge at the firehouse, and within a few more weeks I had joined the ambulance corps (different fire department) and almost immediately was picking up the pieces of a high school classmate, and it didn't have a great deal of effect on my own drinking habits. I can't really say what did it for me, I was a pretty wild kid and more than once slept in my car because I was too drunk to get out and go in the house.

After my first (late) wife and I married things went on that way for a while, and then we calmed down and stayed that way until she passed 23 years later, when I lit right into drinking again. It was a stripper younger than my daughters, just a friend and a former piano student of my late wife. who snapped me out of that when I showed up at the club she worked in just barely able to stand up, and she told me how disgusted with me she was and that one of those days I was going to kill someone else even if I didn't care about myself. I left and never went back, but I also stopped the booze, except for an occasional shot of vodka, and I don't even do that if I am carrying.

If I was a chl instructor I would probably tell the class that if you think your going to drink and carry you might as well leave the class now. Think before you drink, it could save a life. Driving or fumbling with a gun when your drunk is just insane.

I don't have a problem with busting a CHL-holder that blatantly violated the law. I expect it.

Purplehood wrote:I don't have a problem with busting a CHL-holder that blatantly violated the law. I expect it.

Agree, but change the word to demand.

snatchel wrote:I wish i had a video camera, if every college girl in this town saw this drunken girl so incredibly intoxicated that she was falling over flashing her nether regions for all to see, maybe they would make some sense of it and realize they dont want to be there. Sad to see such a gorgeous girl going down like that...you almost want to feel sorry for her.

I do feel sorry for her.... She could have had me drive her to my place... Errrr, home.

This wasn't me.

Russell wrote:

zigzag wrote:Too many drunks in Houston and Harris County. God help us to make this a dry place to live.

Banning alcohol will have the same affect on drunks just like banning guns has on crime. None.

ha, took the words right out of my mouth!

LedJedi wrote:

Russell wrote:

zigzag wrote:Too many drunks in Houston and Harris County. God help us to make this a dry place to live.

Banning alcohol will have the same affect on drunks just like banning guns has on crime. None.

ha, took the words right out of my mouth!

You've got it all wrong guys. We need to ban cars, that's whats killing people.

Apophis wrote:

LedJedi wrote:

Russell wrote:

zigzag wrote:Too many drunks in Houston and Harris County. God help us to make this a dry place to live.

Banning alcohol will have the same affect on drunks just like banning guns has on crime. None.

ha, took the words right out of my mouth!

You've got it all wrong guys. We need to ban cars, that's whats killing people.

No, we need to ban idiots.

Yeah, but who decides who are idiots and who are not? The idiots?

Back to my original bright idea. Ban cars.


....Or we can ban the gasoline that fuels cars. :D



....Yea ,I think option #2 would be just a tad more practical.

Investigators said the man has a concealed handgun license, but he was in violation of the permit because he was intoxicated and the gun was visible to officers.

Who cares if it was visible? I understand the drinking and carrying being a no-no, but unless the gun was right out on the dashboard (which it MAY have been, but unlikely) who cares?

If we (Texas) are going to extend the castle doctrine to our vehicles, in part, and you (technically) can open-carry on private property, then who cares if someone has a exposed gun in a car? If people driving by can't see it, and it took a police officer opening his door or prying around, incident to arrest, then MY opinion is it doesn't matter...
Again, I recognize the violation of DWI and unlawful carrying because of that.

We just need open carry... aren't like 44/50 states in some shape open carry?