Van Bramer Wants Stricter Gun Control

A SIMPLE RESPONSE
(Readers Digest Version)

I ought to be a poster boy for more gun-control laws. My mother was a forty-four year old a (nobody) when she was shot to death Wednesday morning September 9, 1981, in Houston, Texas. She was waiting to clock into work with a group of co-workers that morning when she was gunned down in right in front of them. There was nothing anyone could have done to save her. Her attacker was the only one present who was armed. He emptied all six shots from his revolver were into her body. After she was shot and down on the ground he used his empty pistol like a rock and started to pistol-whip her. Neither mercy nor quarter was given. After his gun was empty and the pistol-whipping was going on her co-workers finally restrained her attacker and hold him for the police. She died about an hour later in the E.R. at Ben Taub Hospital. Pardon the graphic details I have had over thirty one years to live with facts-of-life that no one should have to live with. With what follows maybe being graphic will give a better understanding for what I have come to believe.

I suppose it is understood that a number of laws were broken that that morning. Murders often exercise “cruel an unusual” capital punishment on anyone anytime they please. It is open season on us all. We only hear of the bloodshed when they target a high profile (somebody) or (groups) especially if children are involved. For the forth estate the higher profile, the larger the group and especially with children all the better. Emotions will rule the day and logic be-damned!

The cost a typical murderer pays is small in comparison to their crime. Freedom from “Cruel an unusual punishment” is only a right reserved for the guilty. Their victims just die! It was many years later I learned my mother’s executioner had murdered before! So that it is clearly understood he was under a restraining order, he was a convicted felon, a convicted felon with a gun and a convicted felon with a gun committing murder again! Any one with half a brain knows these things are all against the law! Simply put neither laws nor the police protect anyone, but more on that latter. Six years in prison on average is the cost most murderers pay. A few years confinement on the taxpayer dime is the cost for so many innocent lives lost. A high profile victim a (somebody) or a (large group) may serve a little more time, maybe life, maybe! Occasionally some do get the needle or as it is now so often being called “cruel an unusual punishment”. This as opposed to the charity they showed their victims I suppose.

Murder victims never receive a jury trial, they have no rights to appeal; victims only have to die a painful and often brutal death! That morning my mom just thought she was just going to work. Instead she was just going to die! I don’t get to see her again, ever! No visits from friends and family like her murderer probably received. I just visit a stone in a graveyard and wonder what might have been if only… At that time we learned we couldn’t to be informed about his trial or his fate. It was against the law! It took the advent of the internet to finally learn a few meager details, most notably six years and out. Betty was a (nobody), but as “Momma” she was a (somebody) to me!

I’d finally had enough. I’m no doubt emotional about all of this. That doesn’t alter the logic one bit. For years I’ve watched celebrities and listened to empty talking heads and read countless articles and all agenda driven. Clueless but cunning people with a public platform I’ll never have. They all express the same stupid pap as this article. Big deal! Go right ahead, explain the logic of this mindless ideology to my mother, and shout it real loud. The dead don’t hear very well!

Will Gainaris repudiate saeusa.org and goarch.org referring to Greek Americans with the nazi term Expatriate Homogeneity?

Ruben you’re right, those people in the projects are the real problem. Those people just want government handouts & obama phones.

JVB thinks we are all stupid. If not..why not support RFID technology in bullets ?

“The violence must end,” Van Bramer said in a statement.

Indeed, Councilman. Couldn’t agree more.

The cops just shot and killed another innocent, unarmed man recently, an off-duty National Guardsman. Perhaps we should pass some new laws restricting the police from having guns too.

@Bliss & Skillman – All criminals started out as law abiding citizens.

Please — are you going to restrict criminals that own guns ? background checks for illegally purchased firearms ? You politicians are taking us for idiots ?? make nice speeches and get your name & picture in the papers… ooooooo, looks he’s doing something – let’s re-eleects him — what a joke.

I believe that while Councilman Van Bramer’s intentions are in the right place, it’s most likely all for naught!

I’ve lived in several parts of this country, Arizona, South Florida and New York City (born and raised in the latter). The problem exists in these three areas and then some.

While I recognize that guns don’t kill people, people kill people, I really find it hard to believe that any other weapon would cause as much violence as guns do. I don’t think that guy in the movie theater could’ve done as much damage as he did had he been brandishing a knife? We don’t ever hear about stray knives? Stray bats? Stray chains? Stray fists? Just sayin’!

Perhaps if gun and ammo sales were prohibited on the internet? Perhaps our borders, customs points and ports should be scrutinized at a better level? How about mandatory sentencing, like the drug laws? Random thoughts.

10 day waiting period? But I’m angry now!

What do the statistics say? How many of the killings were done with legally obtained guns? I am against gun bearing nuts as much as all of us, but i don’t think the legal guns are the problem..