Authorities ID teen killed at Cypress house party
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Source: Houston Chronicle
A teenager who attended a large house party where two Cypress Springs High School students died says gunshots began in the house and continued outside as people ran into the streets seeking cover.
Shaniqua Brown, 17, says Saturday evening's birthday party "was not rowdy at all," and many people were dancing when they heard the shots.
Authorities are seeking two gunmen who are ages 17 and 22.
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The party was advertised on Twitter as an 18th birthday celebration with the hashtag #Fab3HouseParty. Brown said word about the party was also spread through Instagram, a photo-sharing app and website.
Garcia said promoting the party on social media likely invited strangers to the home.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Two-Cypress-Springs-High-School-students-killed-4971781.php
This story has gone national, as the New York Times has covered it and adds:
In January, a dispute between two students led to gunfire at Lone Star College’s North Harris campus that sent four people to hospitals. In April, more than a dozen people were stabbed by a troubled student at Lone Star College’s CyFair campus, about five miles from the scene of the shooting on Saturday. And in September, a fight at Spring High School led to the stabbing death of a 17-year-old student.
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On Saturday, nearly 40 armed men, women, and children waited outside a Dallas, Texas area restaurant to protest a membership meeting for the state chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun safety advocacy group formed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
According to a spokeswoman for Moms Demand Action (MDA), the moms were inside the Blue Mesa Grill when members of Open Carry Texas (OCT) — an open carry advocacy group — “pull up in the parking lot and start getting guns out of their trunks.” The group then waited in the parking lot for the four MDA members to come out. The spokeswoman said that the restaurant manager did not want to call 911, for fear of “inciting a riot” and waited for the gun advocates to leave. The group moved to a nearby Hooters after approximately two hours.
MDA later released a statement calling OCT “gun bullies” who “disagree with our goal of changing America’s gun laws and policies to protect our children and families.” The statement added that the members and restaurant customers were “terrified by what appeared to be an armed ambush.” A member of OCT responded by tweeting, “I guess I’m a #gunbullies #Comeandtakeit.”
This is not the first time that gun advocates have rallied at MDA events. In March, a group of armed men crashed a MDA gun-control rally in Indianapolis. Other gun advocate groups will hold rallies this upcoming December 14th, the anniversary date of the Sandy Hook shooting.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/10/2921121/dallas-gun-advocates-protest-restaurant-gun-control-advocates/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024011323
So, it takes 40 heavily armed RWNJs to confront 4 people who dared to have a meeting. That's 4 dangerous minds, folks, 4. How scary is that, someone who wants a civilized discussion. But the gun toting fascists don't believe they have that right, so they show up like a load of commandos. Oh, no coercion there...
This incident with 2 dead and 19 wounded, might actually have been the sort of thing those mothers were thinking about in addition to Sandy Hook. But how dare they! How dare they even say such a thing! 1st amendment, anybody?
Just like the 4th that wingnuts carried on about TSA when PBO was elected, but didn't mind when the Shrub did it? Huh? And don't regard women's bodies as covered by the 4th, since they support personhood laws?
Aw, shucks. You wonder why I don't respect you. It's a two way street. A armed mob is not going to have a respectful talk while threatening to kill you for talking. Nope.
No, I am not going to be nice to people who have been shutting down civil discourse since 2008. This is pure intimidation, just like Somalia or any other libertarian paradise. Are we to be cowed into not saying anything while they and their ilk steal the USA?
It's more of the MIGHT makes RIGHT thinking that is killing this country and the planet. Oh, and people and freedom of speech, too. Big Fat Liars that they are, they claim their use of the 2nd protects the 1st.
But only for them, not anyone else!
Sorry if I went offtopic, but the thread seems to be going that way...
That is not a photoshop. I've seen these on and off for nearly 30 years in more than one state. It has an effect on both sides of the aisle, emboldening one and intimidating the other.
Wash, rinse, repeat. And it does it work on the human mind very well.
A person may look at that and think, 'Oh, look, it's a wingnut,' and not feel an immediate threat. But the rhetoric builds subconsciously to let you know if you fall into any of those groups, you are a game animal. Nothing new:
Gun Advocate Declares Democrat Hunting Season, Encourages Assassinations (AUDIO)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/04/gun-advocate-declares-democrat-hunting-season-encourages-assassinations-audio/
And yes, the parties are far apart. Those who say they are the same, have not paid attention. One can look at the videos of the Birchers and baggers, and other versions of RWNJs, who can't think right after hearing all of this.
We can't solve problems in a democratic society with no discourse. This is not discourse, this is about minds made up, waiting to act or at least, scare others into not speaking. Some RWNJs will never act out; some clearly have. We ignore them at our peril and we have a difficult position, because democracy doesn't allow us to act in kind. If we do what they do, we have lost.
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