Edinburg TX, Harwell Middle School

[RPB]

FRIDAY JAN 6 2012
Gunfire puts Edinburg's Harwell Middle School under lockdown (now lifted)
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Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called out to Harwell Middle School on Friday morning after someone reported hearing gunshots.

No injuries were reported.

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The lockdown has been lifted as of 9:30 a.m. Friday.

The shooting comes weeks after gunfire from hunters left two Harwell Middle School students injured.

[Lucid]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... story.html

A competitive marksman was charged Friday in a shooting last month in which two teens were severely wounded during basketball tryouts behind their South Texas middle school — a shooting the local sheriff portrayed as unintentional but “very reckless.”

[Skiprr]

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 447066.php

The school opened this year in a rural area of Hidalgo County on a campus adjacent to ranch lands with hunting leases.

Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Rene Gutierrez said...he was reaching out to state representatives, proposing a ban on hunting within three miles of schools.

Regardless of the ultimate verdict in this case--and my prayers are certainly with the students--but can we say "knee-jerk reaction" on behalf of superintendent Gutierrez? Build a school in a rural area amidst hunting leases and then expect all landowners within a radius of three miles to give up their rights? Mind you, a ban within three miles of a school would mean an area covering 28.27 square miles, or 18,092 acres.

We may need to keep watch for a Hidalgo County representative filing something like this next legislative session. Talk about drastically changing the map with regards to where you would be able to shoot on your own land, just draw an 18,000-acre circle around every school in the state...

[The Annoyed Man]

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 447066.php

The school opened this year in a rural area of Hidalgo County on a campus adjacent to ranch lands with hunting leases.

Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Rene Gutierrez said...he was reaching out to state representatives, proposing a ban on hunting within three miles of schools.

Regardless of the ultimate verdict in this case--and my prayers are certainly with the students--but can we say "knee-jerk reaction" on behalf of superintendent Gutierrez? Build a school in a rural area and then expect all landowners within a radius of three miles to give up their rights? Mind you, a ban within three miles of a school would mean an area covering 28.27 square miles, or 18,092.8 acres.

We may need to keep watch for a Hidalgo County representative filing something like this next legislative session. Talk about drastically changing the map with regards to where you would be able to shoot on your own land, just draw an 18,000-acre circle around every school in the state...

Skiprr, you beat me to this particular punch. This is a big deal, and I fully expect that Superintendent Gutierrez will try to agitate for something like this, and we DO need to keep an eye on this.

A couple of things need to be pointed out to that busybody:

1. The shooter is certainly guilty of failing to exercise common sense, but abrogating the constitutional rights of everyone within a 28 square mile radius is not an answer to a one-time freakish event. Obviously, the shooter didn't take the location of the school into consideration. He's an idiot. Will passing a law that abrogates the rights of everyone within a 28 square mile radius offset the idiocy of one man? I doubt it. But that's the way that liberals think.
2. Although the shooter is not being charged in a separate drug running case, he is being subpoenaed as a witness in that case. A third man was arrested in the vicinity at the same time as the shooting incident—an illegal alien in possession of an "assault rifle" (courtesy of Eric Holder?) who was charged with "poaching" on the same piece of land that the target shooters were on. Was the illegal alien 'poaching,' or was he hunting for government witnesses? If I was living in a largely rural area and the feds were seeking to have me testify at a drug running trial near the border, you can bet your double bippie that I would be making sure my "target" rifles were zeroed to known distances too.
3. The superintendent is an idiot.

Well, that's three things...not a couple. And idiots lack the self-recognition subroutine in their thought processses—which is what makes them idiots in the first place.