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Take note, the long version was twice as long. 🤣🤣🤣

I will try the medium version. Bodily Injury and Serious Bodily Injury. Both are injuries but in the Penal Code, Serious Bodily Injury is distinct from merely Bodily Injury. Both have their own definitions in the Penal Code. If a person causes Bodily Injury to a person it is a misdemeanor crime. If a person causes Serious Bodily Injury it is a felony. They are different. Force and Deadly Force. Both are force but Deadly Force is distinct from Force. An example is the Penal Code says that to remove someone from trespassing you can use the reasonable FORCE necessary to remove the person. So if you reasonably believe that Deadly Force is necessary, is it lawful? No, the Penal Code has a distinct definition of Deadly Force. The law on ending Trespassing clearly says that you can use the Force necessary. It doesn’t say the Deadly Force necessary. They are different. Why do these examples matter? Knife and Location-restricted knife. There are locations that a knife is not a crime but at certain locations, a Location-restricted knife is a felony. A school, as is being discussed , is no different than a bar. If you go into a bar for a drink or play in a band, it is not a crime to have a pocket knife on you. So if you ask me, can I legally go into a bar with a knife, my answer would be yes. A school is the equivalent so has the same answer. If you ask me, can I legally go onto school grounds with a knife, my answer would be yes. If you ask, can I legally go into a school or a bar with a Location-restricted knife, my answer would be no, that would be a felony. So is a knife in a school a crime? No, which I’d what I said. Had a question or my statement instead have been, is a Location-restricted knife a crime at a school, the answer would be yes, it’s a felony. I was correct, a knife is not a crime on school grounds. Had you responded to me ONLY with the comment of a knife being illegal in 46.03(a), I would say that you are wrong because you cited a law about a Location-restricted knife, not a knife. So were you wrong? No. You salvaged it when you stated it is a felony “if knife blade is over 5.5 inches”. You gave the Penal Code definition of a Location-restricted knife. Great job! 👍🏼 😎

Do you want the short version or the long version?? 😎

Yep, he was looking for trouble and found it. I don’t think that a knife at school is a crime though. It can be a justification for suspension or expulsion.

🤣🤣🤣 How far will people go to try and justify crimes? Obviously you know this but….. Rittenhouse twice tried to run away and only shot when corned or attacked with deadly weapons. When did the suspect in this case run away and was cornered?

Wait, touching someone doesn’t qualify for deadly force in self defense?? Do tell…. 🤣 Necessary force has been stretched a bit, usually for glaring reason.

Yes it would be a felony in Texas if the blade was over 5.5” and on school grounds. Texas did away with restrictions on the length of a legal knife as long as it isn’t in a restricted location such as a bar, school grounds, etc., or basically anywhere that you could not lawfully carry a handgun. So a person can walk down the street with a Roman broadsword on his side and it is legal. Going to a bar or on school grounds with a 5.75” blade and it’s a felony. That is a no on the Capital Murder. It is not merely committing another felony that makes it Capital Murder but certain felonies. Examples are during a robbery, sexual assault, kidnapping, murder for hire, etc..

Yeah, drilling can absolutely start up and get the product to market in 8 weeks!! Even a person modicum of knowledge would know that you can’t prepare to drill for offshore, where there fields were opened, much less have an exploration being done and getting the product to market. Even on land, if it was said today to start exploring and drilling, that by next week we will have millions of barrels a day flowing? At least come up with something that makes sense.

WAIT, in two months things have not turned around??

It could hold up. It is hard to beat an incumbent though. In I think the 2010 Texas gubernatorial election, a lot of people wanted RINO (claimed) Rick Perry out. A very popular US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson from Texas announced that she was running for governor in the Republican primary. One poll showed her up 56% to around 30% for Perry. Hutchison had high profile endorsements like GHW Bush, Nolan Ryan, Roger Staubach, former Secretary of State James Baker and so on. A year later in the primary she lost to Perry by I think 21 points. This guaranteed new governor got blown out of the water. Who knows, Paxton might actually crush Cornyn. Counting your chickens before they hatch is not always a good indicator of outcome.

He supports stricter gun laws which is usually claimed as a RINO move.

A third term is so far fetched, but constitutionally possible (depending on a future Supreme Court decision), that it seems ridiculous other than to drive people crazy… as you stated.

That is exactly what many people were claiming with Biden. Someone behind the curtain was playing puppet master.

Certainly we have no clue. Going by social media, including local and national, there seems to be about an 80%-90% of the people saying there has to be something up with this. Their outright statements are that they were all involved in something crooked, etc. Obviously, anything is a possibility since we have no clue. There is a very good possibility that these deputies did not even know each other. A couple were retired. I have a hard time remembering, but I believe that I have known six police officers who have killed themselves. Two were coworkers. This is not a huge area compared to the greater Houston area. Some causation of the fairly short time frame possibly had to do with the mentality that if a couple of others did it, it must be somehow acceptable. There was a case, maybe 15 or 20 years ago where several teenagers in a community had committed suicide. I don’t think there was any connection. When some teens are struggling and not knowing what to do and a couple of others in the same community take their own lives, I believe that it somehow gives them justification in their own mind as a reasonable solution. Like, well Mary and Robert did it so….. Policing is a profession which already has a fairly high statistic of suicides. To see so many personally (no telling how many I have seen) and seeing death every week and then topping it off with other officers from the same agency, I think it might make the decision easier. Maybe someone with mental health, professional experience can chime in. But who knows if they were related. My suspicion is that they were not.

Not really.