AR-15 Incident in Texas July 4th that Led to Explosion Too Much by Too Little
Posted by HCN on Monday, July 8, 2019
When you add fireworks, to gasoline powered vehicle with limited occupancy space, to firearms, the combination can be about the most dangerous as a non-wartime situation can get. Even for a dramatized TV show, some of Chuck Norris old scenes from decades back where the vehicle crashes into the oil tanker, and the driver starts the vehicle anyway, not to mention roadside blasts in the Middle East as our soldiers strive to fight for protection of our homeland, rarely see violence to this extreme. It is unfortunate that the knowledge of 'how to' get something like it going, is obtainable. As are certain deadly firearms, by the young and still vulnerable minds susceptible to carrying out actions which are last on the list that anyone wants done, to include firearm manufacturers. But, as the saying goes, they know about it, and without that knowledge, they would not have done it.
Last week of April, just before the summer season a few months back, in Poway, California, a younger individual pulled out a high powered firearm, and shot at a religious institution.
Again, a young man shoots into a vehicle with a family as they are driving off. In a manner taken out of a gang movie, a violent slickster trying to send a message. Well his message materialized into more than what he might have been bargaining for. Ignitions work very fast, and sometimes there is no telling what the series of events could be. Fortunately there were individuals that risked injury to themselves to save the children and family inside the burning vehicle.
The location this time Houston area of Texas. Man shoots into a pickup truck that has fireworks inside, fireworks ignited. It may not be appropriate to reiterate the details, so they will not be; other websites have the story.
At the end of this discussion, is not so much the right to keep and bear arms, but whether they are being distributed too loosely. High powered firearms that have high number ammunition rounds, are landing in the hands of teenagers, and those not mentally equipped to be handling them, legally, and in the framework of American principles; that is the challenge, -how do we keep the principles, and reduce the situation of firearms winding up in the hands of those who should not have had them?
