# College Station, Texas shooting
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 13, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402 "2012-08-13T19:46:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/61 "2012-08-13T23:11:00Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> Ok, so this is weird…_nothing_ about this on Drudge Report.
This happened at Texas A&M. Full of Texans and military types. They’re having a hard time figuring out how to spin it since no red-blooded American hero managed to take the guy out before he started killing people.
If they can say with certainty that a single gun carrier in Pussyville, Colorado could have taken out a dude in full body armor in a dark movie theater filled with tear gas, how can they explain how a bunch of military trained TEXANS, for God’s sake, couldn’t get this dude first.
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/62 "2012-08-13T23:11:10Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#):
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> You know those fake “Ask the person on the street” articles that the Onion does? This seems like it came right out of one of those articles. (P.S. I know youa re being sarcastic)
Dear god! What if someone swam some laps in the local pool, had a few beers, and drove an ATV with a small snow plow attached to it to go plow the driveway of the local day care?!? What if it was Michael Phelps? :eek: WHY WON’T ANY OF YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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### Author:  [@Shoujin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoujin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/63 "2012-08-13T23:15:03Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#):
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> : WHY WON’T ANY OF YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Because the kids carry 50 ca muzzleloaders. They can watch out for themselves.:smack:
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/64 "2012-08-13T23:17:53Z")
> [@Shoujin](#):
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> Because the kids carry 50 ca muzzleloaders. They can watch out for themselves.:smack:
They’d better watch out for me. I got my concealed carry permit for my wading pool.
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### Author:  [@Shoujin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoujin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/65 "2012-08-13T23:20:42Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#):
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> They’d better watch out for me. I got my concealed carry permit for my wading pool.
As long as it’s not an automatic deluge wading pool, it’s cool.
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/66 "2012-08-13T23:23:50Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#):
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> This happened at Texas A&M. Full of Texans and military types. They’re having a hard time figuring out how to spin it since no red-blooded American hero managed to take the guy out before he started killing people.
They’re having a hard time because in this instance it was a red-blooded American hero relying on his constitutional right to arm himself to the teeth and defend his property from being taken by the state. You get what’s coming to you when you serve an eviction notice in the land of the free.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/67 "2012-08-13T23:25:16Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#):
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> This is going to happen about the same time we land humans on a planet in another solar system.
On that, we’re in complete agreement. Doesn’t really explain the time and effort you put into all your TLDR screeds, though, in defense of something so assured and unassailable.
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/68 "2012-08-13T23:26:22Z")
I just can’t get past it. I keep thinking of things like hipster gangs wearing old school swim suits and doing drive-bys on ATVs armed with cans of PBR.
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/69 "2012-08-13T23:30:34Z")
> [@Shoujin](#):
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> As long as it’s not an automatic deluge wading pool, it’s cool.
The cottage beside my grandparents’ cottage had an automatic deluge wading pool built down along the shore. When the tide came in, the pool filled up. When the tide went out, the pool retained its water. Since this was on the Canadian side of the Passamaquoddy border, no one was shot.
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### Author:  [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/70 "2012-08-13T23:32:15Z")
If the report had been that “a man high on marijuana went on a shooting rampage,” how many people here would have said that it probably wasn’t marijuana?
A shooting is a tragedy, but it’s no reason to deliberately misrepresent what happened.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/71 "2012-08-13T23:36:24Z")
> [@Muffin](#):
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> They’re having a hard time because in this instance it was a red-blooded American hero relying on his constitutional right to arm himself to the teeth and defend his property from being taken by the state. You get what’s coming to you when you serve an eviction notice in the land of the free.
Extremely insightful…
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#):
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> If the report had been that “a man high on marijuana went on a shooting rampage,” how many people here would have said that it probably wasn’t marijuana?
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> A shooting is a tragedy, but it’s no reason to deliberately misrepresent what happened.
Well…when I see ‘man high on bath salts’ I assume that bath salts aren’t involved. Remember the Florida Face Eater? Yeah. Not bath salts.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/72 "2012-08-13T23:37:24Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#):
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> If the report had been that “a man high on marijuana went on a shooting rampage,” how many people here would have said that it probably wasn’t marijuana?
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> A shooting is a tragedy, but it’s no reason to deliberately misrepresent what happened.
What happened, exactly?
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### Author:  [@Shoujin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoujin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/73 "2012-08-13T23:39:28Z")
> [@Muffin](#):
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> The cottage beside my grandparents’ cottage had an automatic deluge wading pool built down along the shore. When the tide came in, the pool filled up. When the tide went out, the pool retained its water. Since this was on the Canadian side of the Passamaquoddy border, no one was shot.
That’s because the pool didn’t cut loose with a barrage of cop-killer water shot. Pretty sure your wading pool doesn’t live in fear.
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### Author:  [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/74 "2012-08-13T23:39:58Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> On that, we’re in complete agreement. Doesn’t really explain the time and effort you put into all your TLDR screeds, though, in defense of something so assured and unassailable.
Let me know when you want to go over your 10,200+ posts one by one and explain the time you put into them. I put virtually no effort into them because I was communicating with gibbering baboons, but yes, it did take some time to type my posts in this thread.
I’m going to bet you make posts here for entertainment, this is what this forum is for, and that’s why I made my posts, I enjoy posting on message boards. Do you need further explanation? Maybe you’d like to know why I read the news, why I sometimes go out to restaurants, why I beat off, or why I drink alcohol on occasion?
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### Author:  [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/75 "2012-08-13T23:43:49Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#):
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> I just can’t get past it. I keep thinking of things like hipster gangs wearing old school swim suits and doing drive-bys on ATVs armed with cans of PBR.
You’re obviously too stupid to understand anything. It doesn’t matter what the “intended use” for a gun versus a swimming pool is. From a matter of public policy all that matters is how many innocent lives are lost to them, right? I mean because for people like you I **know** you’re not just obsessed with certain inanimate objects that make you shit yourself more than others, you’re only concerned with which inanimate objects magically control themselves into killing other humans.
A swimming pool has just as much ability to spontaneously kill a human being as a gun does, and just as much intelligence to carry out and plan spree killings.
Brain dead mouth breathers like you are exactly why those of us who support gun rights plain don’t give a shit about any of these dead people and don’t care how many of them die. We’ve put up with stupid fucks for so long who revel in their ignorance about the terminology that it really serves no purpose to even try to make a serious point.
The moment I step back from a bit of satire to try and actually explain something in a way you’d understand you show that you are too stupid to talk about guns. That’s exactly why I didn’t bother at first, and the one stupid thing I did in this thread was actually give any of you the benefit of the doubt for that one post–but the response proves there is no reason to ever do that again.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/76 "2012-08-13T23:45:15Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#):
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> Brain dead mouth breathers like you are exactly why those of us who support gun rights plain don’t give a shit about any of these dead people and don’t care how many of them die. We’ve put up with stupid fucks for so long who revel in their ignorance about the terminology that it really serves no purpose to even try to make a serious point.
Whooooah there, slick. You’re speaking for yourself and…well…maybe just yourself.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/77 "2012-08-13T23:50:48Z")
The shooter’s name was Tres Caffall.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/78 "2012-08-13T23:54:06Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#):
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> What happened, exactly?
Just pot, though there’s the theory that toxicology can’t keep up with the weird chemicals people are snorting/shooting/eating these days. Probably plain old-fashioned crazy.
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/79 "2012-08-13T23:57:36Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#):
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> You’re obviously too stupid to understand anything. It doesn’t matter what the “intended use” for a gun versus a swimming pool is. From a matter of public policy all that matters is how many innocent lives are lost to them, right? I mean because for people like you I **know** you’re not just obsessed with certain inanimate objects that make you shit yourself more than others, you’re only concerned with which inanimate objects magically control themselves into killing other humans.
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> A swimming pool has just as much ability to spontaneously kill a human being as a gun does, and just as much intelligence to carry out and plan spree killings.
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> Brain dead mouth breathers like you are exactly why those of us who support gun rights plain don’t give a shit about any of these dead people and don’t care how many of them die. We’ve put up with stupid fucks for so long who revel in their ignorance about the terminology that it really serves no purpose to even try to make a serious point.
I normally wouldn’t go all internet, but that’s an awfully large amount of butthurt. You posted something insanely and accidentally funny. Don’t get all pissy because I’m laughing at you for it. Maybe you should relax. Can I suggest having a beer or would that constitute a death threat?
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> The moment I step back from a bit of satire to try and actually explain something in a way you’d understand you show that you are too stupid to talk about guns. That’s exactly why I didn’t bother at first, and the one stupid thing I did in this thread was actually give any of you the benefit of the doubt for that one post–but the response proves there is no reason to ever do that again.
Damn right! Better argument than I could’ve made. I totally agree that you should stop posting entirely. Do you know how many people have been killed by message boards?
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-station-texas-shooting/631402/80 "2012-08-14T00:09:11Z")
Since this has been moved to the Pit, can I just say how much I love the Tapatalk app? When you have someone on your ignore list and that person posts (like really long ass screeds that make ludicrous statements about exciting deaths, etc., as just one example I’ve pulled outta my ass), you see absolutely nothing. No post that you can click a button and then see what they said. They are totally vanished. The only way you even know they’re here is if someone else quotes them to mock them about swimming pools. It’s awesome and frigging hilarious. I highly approve.
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