another road rage shooting - oops, Texas this time

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/crime/stories/080909dnmetdoubleshooting.be60350d.html

And oh my, a white guy.

Police arrest man suspected of shooting 2 men after Dallas car accident

01:07 PM CDT on Saturday, August 8, 2009

Steven Griffin faces two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting of Zenas Hicks and a bystander outside a gas station in Old East Dallas, just south of Samuell Grand Park

About 12:40 this morning, Griffin and Hicks were involved in a car accident in the 5700 block of East R.L. Thornton Freeway, police said. They both pulled into a gas station a couple of blocks away and began arguing.

Griffin returned to his vehicle, flashed a handgun and told Hicks that he had a license to carry the weapon, police said. The argument escalated, police said, and Griffin fired two rounds into the pavement and two at Hicks, who was shot in the legs.

The bystander, who was pumping gas nearby, was struck in the left buttocks and drove himself to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Paramedics transported Hicks, 41, to Baylor with non-life-threatening injuries.

Now we may be very suspicious about Griffin's claim to have a permit for his pistol. It's a wonder he didn't call it an automatic assault rifle while he was at it too, probably.

Now, I was googing for the other bystander - road rage shooting when I found this one; here is where I found it:

http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2009/08/road-rage-dallas-style.html

The idea that the problems of the inner city in Chicago is any different than the problems of the inner city in Dallas, or New Orleans or any others state is absolute bunk!

I couldn't agree more, as far as the gun violence goes. And I thank Bob for putting the lie to the oft-repeated refrain of the pro-gun crowd that the problems in Chicago, for example, prove the local gun laws don't work. The implication is that only places like Chicago have these problems. But, as Bob pointed out, they exist also in the larger urban centers of the South where the gun laws are lax.

Here's the difference though. Crime guns recovered in the southern cities are procured locally. Crime guns recovered in the northern cities are trafficked in from the South.

Well in a nutshell, eh?

I guess we'll just have to keep an eye out for follow-ups on the permit business. Not seeing any more just now.