What has happened to Texas?
Homes were evacuated because someone found a box and a half of ammo. This didn’t happen Where Great Britain Used To Be, where this sort of hysterical overreaction is entirely believable and, even, predictable. This happened in San Antonio. And warranted evacuating 6 households and calling a bomb squad.
All those involved should be embarrassed.
March 8th, 2017 at 7:20 pm
The bomb squad’s response should be, “we’re the Bomb Squad, not the Burns Quickly Squad. Don’t call for Explosive Ordinance Disposal unless it is Explosive.”
March 8th, 2017 at 7:38 pm
Evidently, we have allowed lawyers to reside in Texas. We expect that situation to be resolved soon.
March 8th, 2017 at 8:15 pm
I’m sad to report that parts of all big cities in Texas (San Antonio, Houston, most of Dallas/Ft. worth) have turned blue. And Austin where I lived for 40 years rivals anything Bezerkley can come up with. Happily, the way districts were “chosen”, there is still an all RED state government. No democratic socialists in any state wide position but the RINO’s did get King George Bush the Third elected as General Land Office Commissioner. But between the bible thumpers and the Chamber of Commerce let em all in cuz we want cheap labor types, I fear what will happen in the next few years.
March 8th, 2017 at 9:10 pm
The overreaction is a tactic. None of the people play-acting like that have any real concern that would warrant the response. It’s purely an act. Top down, tactical insanity if you will.
It’s like the school bully who pokes and prods you until he gets a response in kind, at which point he screams and cries as though you victimized him.
Make all the neighbors into victims because of the presence of ammunition, act like it’s really serious when you know it isn’t, and they’ll learn to fear and hate gun owners right quick. A response like that also gets the insurance companies thinking about making a buck by ramping up the homeowners’ premiums for those who store ammunition. Thus it snowballs, and although the Progressive Marxists don’t get their way at the ballot box, they get their way anyway.
Don’t call them stupid; they know exactly what they’re doing. It’s psychological warfare and they’re playing it brilliantly. I’ve called it “control by freak-out” in the past. Whatever. It’s an age-old tactic of sociopaths, young and old, everywhere.
The proper response from the neighbors would be to call the local powers on their bullshit, remove them from their positions and replace them with sane people. Maybe even bring them up on charges of “Conspiracy to Deprive Rights”. Unfortunately we’ve let this particular war go un-fought for far too long already, and so the pre-conditioned neighbors, having unwittingly allied themselves with the sociopaths, will just as likely pile on with the hate.
March 8th, 2017 at 10:04 pm
Why is this story making the rounds again? It was on Miguel’s a year ago.
http://gunfreezone.net/index.php/2016/02/28/75-rounds-of-pistol-ammunition-found-underneath-house-nearby-homes-evacuated-no-i-am-not-kidding-you/
March 8th, 2017 at 10:19 pm
Don’t forget, San Antonio is where Obama’s Housing Secretary, Julian Castro, was mayor. San Antonio has enough illegals voting to stay blue forever.
March 8th, 2017 at 11:26 pm
I lived in Austin in the early 70′, just out of the Army. At the time locally it was known as the ‘Palm Springs of the Movement’. In the late 90’s I returned twice a year as tech director for a Broadway show based there. One of the stars of the show, not surprisingly VERY liberal told me the hippies had been in charge for so long they’d run out of things to bitch about. And that the malady had moved to the rest of the cities in the state.
Apparently no change.
March 9th, 2017 at 11:24 am
Meh, it’s just security theater. San Antonio has all that nifty equipment and they need to show how important it is to keep buying it.
March 9th, 2017 at 12:11 pm
Dunno. Someone emailed it to me.
March 12th, 2017 at 7:38 pm
Silly me, and I thought burying it was one of the safest ways to dispose of old ammunition.