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Restating the Obvious

POSTED:Tue, November 18, 2008 @ 11:25PM

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Here come the anti-gun people. . .

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I spend a week or two in Houston every year, and stuff like this happens almost every day:

"KEMAH — A man and his teenage son were in critical condition Monday after the boy shot his father in a dispute over a fast-food order and turned the gun on himself in the family's north Galveston County home, according to the Galveston County Sheriff's Office.

"The 16-year-old boy returned from a fast-food restaurant with food the father had not ordered and an argument ensued that led to the shooting at about 3:20 p.m. Sunday at the home on Lazy Lane, sheriff's spokesman Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said.

"The boy shot his father once in the head, Tuttoilmondo said.

"The boy's mother, who witnessed the incident, called 911, Tuttoilmondo said.

"A Clear Lake Shores police officer entered the home, in an unincorporated area between Kemah and Clear Lake Shores, spotted the teen with the pistol and ordered him to drop it, he said.

"However, the boy moved out of their view and shot himself in the head, Tuttoilmondo said."

The comments in the story in The Houston Chronicle are hilarious, starting with this one from Txlady615"

"Here come the anti-gun people. . .That gun did not commit this terrible crime. .the boy did. Of course, the father should have had it secured. But if it was there for protection of the family it's not much protection locked away when an intruder is coming it. Sad situation . I pray they will both be ok."

Nearly a tenth of all Americans live in Texas, and Txlady615 is frighteningly representative of most of them.

The wife/mother, or perhaps by now widow Mueller, was regarded as odd because she traveled by means other than pickup truck: "Neighbors . . . said they found it odd that Mueller's wife would walk the half-mile to the local Target store. Several people said they often saw her pushing a cart with her purchases past their houses."

When I'm in Houston, I walk more than half a mile each way to pick up a copy of the Chronicle every day. So far nobody has thought I needed shootin', but I keep my eyes peeled.

Funniest line in the story:

" 'Things like that don't happen here,' said neighbor Carolyn Jenko, 61."

Actually, though, Miz Carolyn, they do. It's Maui where things like that don't happen.

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