Gun incident at Bush's ranch in Crawford

[57Coastie]

Don't let them mess with Texas, ladies. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[Keith B]

I am semi-familiar with that school house and the area across the street. The neighbors around the ranch have had to deal with the press on a ton of occasions.

When Cindy Sheehan had her issue going on out there it was a real zoo. The press felt they had the right to set up anywhere, with lights on their camera trucks and generators running at all hours of the night. The neighbors got feed up with it and their tolerance levels went way down.

Needless to say, you push them and they will push back, especially the media.

[seamusTX]

Wandering around cluelessly while talking on a cell phone. He's lucky he didn't get trampled by a cow.

- Jim

[jimlongley]

The press felt they had the right to set up anywhere, with lights on their camera trucks and generators running at all hours of the night. The neighbors got feed up with it and their tolerance levels went way down.

Needless to say, you push them and they will push back, especially the media.

A whole bunch of years ago I arrived home after working late to find a tv news car parked across my driveway, so I marched down the street and banged on the door of the van until the tech came out, and told him the car had better be moved immediately - his response was "we're doing a story" and I told him I didn't care, that I was calling the cops.

Moments later the reporter came out of a nearby house and moved her car, while mumbling imprecations about "doing a story" and then after I got into my driveway, she moved her car right back across it. I told her she had better get it out of there or I would call the cops, and she got all snotty but finally moved it around the corner and parked in front of a fire plug.

While she went inside and finished her story, I called the cops and they came and towed the car out of the illegal spot, I also prevailed on them to speak to the guys in the van about their illegal parking job, in an intersection across a crosswalk, so they had to shut down and move. When she discovered this perfidy she was suitably incensed and blamed me.

The story that was so important? The overcrowding of the houses on ours and surrounding blocks due to a recent demographic change where absentee landlords had been buying up properties and turning them into rentals for the college students, and the parking problems it was causing. The reporter never mentioned her own illegal parking.

Sometimes the press is just way too impressed with their own importance, and my incident was almost 30 years ago.

I could tell many other tales of being at fire, accident, and police scenes with the press deciding they didn't have to follow rules that everyone else did.

[ProudNativeTexican]

Stories like this make me happy I live in Texas and allowed to get a CHL.

[bdickens]

Did you read some of the moronic replies? If the requirements to be able to vote were half as strict as those to get a CHL, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now! Some of these idiots are unable to concieve of how a woman might possibly have some concerns about a strange man walking up to her house. I have concerns about a strange man walking up to my house.

[Dan20703]

She makes me proud to live in Texas!

[ProudNativeTexican]

They have closed comments for that article.

[Rokyudai]

Did you read some of the moronic replies? If the requirements to be able to vote were half as strict as those to get a CHL, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now! Some of these idiots are unable to concieve of how a woman might possibly have some concerns about a strange man walking up to her house. I have concerns about a strange man walking up to my house.

The comment section of that article is/was becoming a torrid vat of dung slinging on Texas, its residents and American Culture if you ask me. Let them eat their grass. bahhhhhhh!

[Tactical_Texan_CHL]

I can't believe some of the responses people wrote. I'm infuriated, depressed, and sad all at the same time. I don't even know what to think right now. I thouroughly depressed about the future of our country.

[hoytinak]

She makes me proud to live in Texas!

Same here.....Maybe next time they'll stay off her property.

[Charles L. Cotton]

I can't believe some of the responses people wrote. I'm infuriated, depressed, and sad all at the same time. I don't even know what to think right now. I thouroughly depressed about the future of our country.

Some of the worst and most uninformed were from various "subjects" in Europe.

Chas.

[Tactical_Texan_CHL]

I can't believe I read every single comment on there. I just couldn't stop, it was like a bad car accident. There were some very misinformed foriegners who posted on there, but it's the number of home grown anti-gunners that posted that really hurts me. There were rude, abusive sounding comments, and the whole thing just degraded into an insult match on both sides. Reading the awful grammar made my head hurt, and the inability of some people to put a rational thought into words was terrible.

[Rokyudai]

I can't believe I read every single comment on there. I just couldn't stop, it was like a bad car accident. There were some very misinformed foriegners who posted on there, but it's the number of home grown anti-gunners that posted that really hurts me. There were rude, abusive sounding comments, and the whole thing just degraded into an insult match on both sides. Reading the awful grammar made my head hurt, and the inability of some people to put a rational thought into words was terrible.

I agree TacTex, I read all of them as well. It was like a train wreck; so appalling but could not look away.

I agree Charles, "Subjects" is EXACTLY what I think about when I read that dreg. As the saying goes: A person with firearms=citizen, A person denied or refuses the right= subject!

[Wildscar]

None of those people even stop to think. Do they think it would have been any diffrent if he casually walked on to the Crawford ranch. I can assure you that there would have been more than one gun pointed at him then.