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Wendell Docteur is probably just an idiot. As opposed to mentally ill kid with a maybe not so smart mother.

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I'm pretty sure all of those things are covered under Texas law. After all you can get away with shooting an escort if she refuses to have sex with you (which is actually illegal) and won't give your money back for hanging around with your creepy crakcker ass. <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/artic...">http://www.mysanantonio.com...

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I wonder if his mother gave him the surname Docteur because that was what the guy who knocked up said he was studying to become. Kind of like Gluteus Maximus in The Life of Brian. Ugh, somehow that was funnier in my head.

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I know! That was genius.

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How is it they always manage to kill the wrong people?

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... and red cards! bring your dues, bitches

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I know, right? You'd think they'd worship you for being such a badass.

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"Oklahoma law does not actually allow you to chase someone down and shoot them."

Not even if they're armed with Skittles? How did Oklahoma let Florida get so far ahead of them?

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My father stashed my granddad's old shotgun in the back of the closet in the room that my brother and I shared, and had a couple of shells in a box in a storage room in the basement. He was a WWII vet and knew his way around guns but he didn't have the slightest interest in them after the war. Neither did my brother or me, which sounds kind of odd in this day and age, but really wasn't so strange back then.

There was no gun fondler culture back in the 1950s and '60s, and I think that a big reason for it is that so many men from my father's generation had already seen enough gun-related carnage on a massive scale to last a lifetime and then some. Perhaps if more of today's soldier boy-wannabees had actually served any time in combat they might have a more sober and temperate view of firearms.

My brother and I both knew exactly where the shotgun was, standing up in a back corner of our closet, but we never touched it during the whole time that it was there. It was just part of the clutter of stuff in the back. When we moved some years later my father gave the gun and the shells away to a buddy of his. That was when I found out the he even had any shells. It was the only firearm that my family ever had.

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that's putting a tiger in your tank...

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should have used the Sarah P method of turkey control- no evidence when you're done...

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Yes, the active fire front has pretty well fucked off into Yosemite.

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one armed man libul!!1!1!

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It's a little more complicated than that.

He had been advocating arming school teachers. Then he took part in a police-organized simulation which resulted in him fake-shooting a fake-teacher (who was fake-shooting a fake-bad guy).

That was back in January. Since then, he's been trying to arrange a legislative field trip so his colleagues can all receive the same epiphany he did, and ditch their idea to be all arming teachers willy-nilly. So apparently one Republican in Arkansas is still capable of re-evaluating their positions in light of new evidence, but the others are all like "sorry, can't learn from your mistakes, I have to make them myself".

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Republicans do not do nuance.

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And the 2nd Amendment is supposed to keep us safe from a tyrannical government? Half of gun owners would end up shooting the other half.

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