3 dead in Brazos County shootout
ROS and one of my ninjas sent links to the story of a shootout near Texas A&M in Austin, TX. Apparently, an officer was serving an eviction notice when the resident opened fire killing an officer and a passerby before he was killed.
Officers performed CPR on Brazos County Constable Precinct 1 Brian Bachman on scene, but he was pronounced dead after being transported to an area hospital. Officers say the shooting occurred while the constable attempted to serve an eviction notice.
A 65-year-old male civilian was also fatally shot.
A 55-year-old female civilian was shot, and was in surgery Monday afternoon. Her condition is unknown. A College Station police officer was also shot in the leg, and is in stable condition. Two other police officers suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The shooter was apprehended but also died. Every death is tragic, but I also noticed that three other people died in Brazos County today. Two in a car accident and a woman was killed when debris fell off of a truck in front of her. But the only one of those deaths making the national news is the one involving guns.
Category: Guns
Wow Jonn, fact check much?! LOL.
1. Texas A&M is in College Station, TX.
2. ‘Officers’ weren’t performing CPR, it was a combat medic who served a tour in Afghanistan and lived across the street. He ran out after the he heard gunshots. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/texas-am-shooting-college-station_n_1773387.html (Huff Po = crappy source, I know, but I believe the vet).
3. At least one of the other deaths (the lady killed by the truck tailgate debris) happened this past weekend, I believe.
All that being said, the only reason Texas A&M and guns will always make national news is completely political. It’s so the MSM can throw it in Gov. Rick Perry’s face.
Of course the news was reporting Texas A&M because they want to invoke memories of VT. I also bashed the the brady bunch for dancing in the blood of the victims. The bodies not even cool and they are calling for more gun laws. I told them if gun laws worked at stemming crime, Chicago and DC would be crime free. If this guy shot a cop he will shoot anyone. It took another man with a gun to take him out. Yes it was another Law Enforcement Officer but it could have been a concealed carrier as well.
It wasn’t on the campus. It was an eviction gone wrong. But of course, since it happened in College Station it has to be a campus shooting.
And, saying A&M is in Austin is a very dangerous thing to say. Austin is home of the Texas Longhorns who have had a decades long rivalry with the Aggies in College Station…
Hey, Texas has two recent infamous shooting in recent past. The sniper in UT’s clock Tower and JFK(and Oswald). The wild West where all the armed and crazy Texans. You know gunfights in the streets every day. Wait a second that sounds like those cities that have strict gun laws. Always better to point the finger at others to get the attention off your misbeliefs. joe
Cars (or shitty drivers) kill more people than guns do.
Weren’t 21 people shot over the weekend in Chicago?
Weren’t 7 people shot in in Detroit at by oneperson a few days befroe that?
Wonder why those weren’t a national story? (tic-tock, Jeopardy music playing in background)
And the answer is………Communist, er I mean Democrat controlled local govt!
Top 15 causes of death from the CDC listed below. You will notice that murder is less than 1% of the total death tally, and if you are doing the math you will notice there are 19% of deaths caused by something the CDC labels residual and are not listed here, but based on this list you could stop focusing on murder altogether and instead focus on better driving skills and save a huge component of the 5th leading cause of death which is accidents of which cars kill almost 36,000 people a year, meaning we take the same number of deaths in 20 months from driving around while texting as we did during the 5 most violent years in Vietnam…being murdered by another American was 50 times more likely to happen to you than being killed by a terrorist and that was still less than 1% of the likelihood of dying by other means…. Being overweight resulting in heart disease or unlucky enough to get cancer results in a likelihood of death 20 times greater than cars or guns…but lets keep the focus on guns because it fits the political agenda of a certain select group who have friends in the media. It’s always easier to distract from what’s real than it is to focus on solving real problems with hard work… 1 Diseases of heart (I00-I09,I11,I13,I20-I51) 599,413 % of total 24.6 2 Malignant neoplasms (C00-C97) 567,628 % of total 23.3 3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases (J40-J47) 137,353 % of total 5.6 4 Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69) 128,842 % of total 5.3 5 Accidents (unintentional injuries) (V01-X59, Y85-Y86) 118,021 % of total 4.8 6 Alzheimer’s disease (G30) 79,003 % of total 3.2 7 Diabetes mellitus (E10-E14)68,705 % of total 2.8 8 Influenza and pneumonia (J09-J18) 53,692 % of total 2.2 9 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome (N00-N07,N17-N19,N25-N27) 48,935 % of total 2.0 10 Intentional self-harm (suicide) (*U03, X60-X84, Y87.0) 36,909 % of total 1.5 11 Septicemia (A40-A41) 35,639 % of total 1.5 12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (K70, K73-K74) 30,558 % of total 1.3 13 hypertension/hypertensive renal disease (I10,I12,I15) 25,734 %… Read more »
@ #4:
The rivalry actually was from 1894-2011. The reason I say “was” is because DeLoss Dodds, the t.u. athletic director, is so butthurt about our move to the SouthEast Conference coupled with the epic failure that is the longhorn network and the fact that his school has managed to drive out four AAU schools from his conference in less than two years that he has explicitly told all of his coaches not to schedule A&M in any sport any time.
Case in point: “Oh, our non-conference schedule is booked until at least 2019″…followed 2 months later by scheduling UCLA for 2014.
Also, another reason the story was big news is because one of the dead was a police constable.
Only Texicans could change a story about a shooting into a football debate.
Jesus H Roosevelt Christ.
I already said that the reason that this story gets more airplay than others has everything to do with the following reasons:
1. The overall lack of violent crime in College Station (not too long ago, CSPD arrested a football player for not having the vaccinations on his dog up to date).
2. The fact that one of the victims was a cop who was on track to become sheriff.