Propane and Propane Accessories

Okay, I got this one from TBogg too, but the last line of this quote needs to be seen to be believed.

A man fired a shotgun into the air as about 60 anti-war protesters held a religious service on the road to President Bush’s ranch.

Sheriff’s deputies and Secret Service agents in the area of the demonstration site Sunday rushed to the home of Larry Mattlage after the shots were fired but did not arrest him.

“I ain’t threatening nobody, and I ain’t pointing a gun at nobody,” Mattlage said. “This is Texas.”

Ahhh….I forgot about the “This is Texas” loophole that allows gun owners to do anything they want. Pretty sad that the same Secret Service that investigates rappers, cartoonists, and Senators for rhetorical threats against the President does nothing when some idiot with a shotgun starts shooting into the air next door to the President’s ranch. If only Lee Harvey Oswald had a better understanding of Texas law…


posted by greg on August 16, 2005 @ 9:18 am

3 comments

  1. according to a CNN report on that guy, yesterday (i think on the Paula Zahn show) the guy went on and on about how he just wants them “out of my back yard…”

    at the end of the report Paula Zahn added that “Mattlage, by the way, in the interest of full disclosure, actually rents space to another network so it can set up cameras to watch the president’s ranch.”

    CNN transcript here:
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/15/pzn.01.html

    Comment by tomN! — August 16, 2005 @ 9:48 am

  2. I’ll take bets he wants Cindy ‘under’ his backyard.

    Comment by mdhatter — August 16, 2005 @ 11:26 am

  3. TBogg missed the most chilling part:

    “He said he fired his gun in preparation for dove-hunting season but when asked if he had another motive, he said, ‘Figure it out for yourself.’”

    Orgininal Story

    Comment by Joshua — August 16, 2005 @ 11:58 pm

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