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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 09:06 AM Feb 2018

Police: Child, 3 adults shot outside Texas restaurant

Source: AP via ABC News

Police say a masked shooter opened fire on a group of people outside a restaurant in San Antonio, wounding a 6-year-old boy and three adults.

Police Chief William McManus says two of the adults' injuries are life-threatening. He says the boy was shot in the leg and is expected to survive.

Police say the shooting occurred 8:40 p.m. Sunday as the group waited outside a Texas Roadhouse restaurant near Ingram Park Mall.

McManus says investigators don't believe the shooting was random.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-shot-including-boy-texas-steakhouse-53190450

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Police: Child, 3 adults shot outside Texas restaurant (Original Post) oberliner Feb 2018 OP
And thus is continues vercetti2021 Feb 2018 #1
We need to start arming wait staff helmedon1974 Feb 2018 #2
And arm the 6 year old IronLionZion Feb 2018 #3
Don't tell me the victims weren't packing. Aristus Feb 2018 #4
Ease off on the Texas bashing, OK? Paladin Feb 2018 #5
Most Texans do not own guns oberliner Feb 2018 #6
And only 3.6 percent of the state's population are licensed to carry. dalton99a Feb 2018 #8
Anyone know??? Plucketeer Feb 2018 #7

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
1. And thus is continues
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 09:22 AM
Feb 2018

Where is the good guy with the gun to stop all this?! It is Texas after all! Stand your ground, open carry! Dur dur...sad.

Paladin

(28,204 posts)
5. Ease off on the Texas bashing, OK?
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 11:24 AM
Feb 2018

The last few days, weeks, months and years have confirmed that there is no place in this misdirected country that is immune to gun violence.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
6. Most Texans do not own guns
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 11:36 AM
Feb 2018

The state ranks 30th in terms of gun ownership percentage (well behind Vermont, for instance).

dalton99a

(81,073 posts)
8. And only 3.6 percent of the state's population are licensed to carry.
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 11:52 AM
Feb 2018
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Open-carry-texas-gun-map-CHL-ZIP-6777817.php
Who's licensed to open carry? The 40 ZIPs in Texas where the most CHL holders live
By Chris Eudaily, mySA.com / San Antonio Express-News and Kolten Parker | Updated 2:04 pm, Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Nearly 40 ZIP codes in Texas are home to at least 2,500 concealed handgun licensees, who are allowed to openly carry their pistols in public under a new state law, according to data obtained by mySA.com under Texas open records laws.

The ZIPs with the most licensees are peppered throughout the state, with the majority located in suburbs of major metros like San Antonio, Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston, which has seven of the 10 most-licensed ZIPs, the records show.

Other postal codes with at least 2,500 people licensed to carry are in places including Midland, Lubbock and College Station. Three ZIP codes near San Antonio meet that threshold, including Kerrville, Boerne and New Braunfels.

In total, there are 937,419 active CHL holders in Texas — about 3.6 percent of the state's population — according to the records, and 299 Texas ZIP codes are home to 1,000 or more individuals who are licensed to carry. Those areas account for about 55 percent of all CHL holders in the Lone Star State.
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