Gunplay: We were wondering when the first shot would be fired in reaction to Cindy Sheehan's Crawford vigil. Well, it happened
yesterday: (excerpts)
While about 60 in Sheehan's group held a religious service Sunday morning, a nearby landowner, Larry Mattlage, fired his shotgun twice into the air. Mattlage closed the iron gate to his small ranch outside of town and posted "Sorry, We're Closed" signs.
"I ain't threatening nobody, and I ain't pointing a gun at nobody," he said. "This is Texas."
McLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch said he counseled Mattlage to use some restraint.
"He's on his own property," Lynch said. But he warned that Mattlage can't just "shoot across the road."
"Everyone needs to use restraint in this situation out here," the sheriff said.
That's Texas, where you express yourself with deadly force when you're irritated, or as Fox News Channel would have it, "
suffer protest fatigue."
Expect more of this from Bush supporters as the Iraq situation gets worse.
posted by Quiddity at 8/15/2005 08:13:00 AM
Hysterical men-folk with "the vapors" and shotguns: a dangerous combination. Oh, and don't expect them to take responsibility for anything they do when suffering from "protest fatigue". The poor darlings!
VKW
Actually, after reading his comments, he seemed to be pretty neutral politically, but just tired of all the fuss on his doorstep.
From my own time living in Tx, I'd have to say the guy wasn't misbehaving by Texas standards- just using the local lexicon to express his position. For whatever that's worth!
The wonder is that none of the LGF crowd has decided that Cindy Sheehan needs to have her ass kicked to show her what freedom really means.
Derelict
