Which is more important to conservatives? The “right to life” or the 2nd amendment right to bear arms? Careful, it’s a trick question:
Gayle and Sheila Muhs gave trespassers a blunt warning. They posted a large sign outside their Texas home saying trespassers would be shot and survivors would be shot again.
Actually this is what the sign really said: TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT. SURVIVORS WILL BE RESHOT!!! SMILE I WILL. Obviously these folks learned their syntax from Yoda. So what happened when a Father, a Mother, their five year old daughter, their two sons, eleven and seven years old and a family friend, came too close to the Muh’s property line for the Muhs’ comfort? Read and weep:
Police got a 911 call just after 9 p.m. Thursday, [Liberty County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Ken] DeFoor said, from Sheila Muhs who “reported there were people in jacked up four-wheel automobiles … and that she shot them.” She also reported that the vehicles were destroying the nearby levees.
But in reality, DeFoor said, the families in the two cars had done nothing illegal. And, he said, they never set foot on the Muhs’ property. […]
In the Jeep were Cammack, 30, Donald Coffey, 30 and Donald Jr., 7. In the following Ford SUV were Becky Coffey, Nelton and the Coffey’s 5-year-old daughter, Destiny, and 11-year-old son.
The two cars stopped on the county-owned road outside the Muhs’ home so one of the boys could go to the bathroom by the side of the road.
That’s when, DeFoor said, the couple ran out of their house.
I guess they were pissed that a 7 year old boy needed to go to the potty. So pissed they felt they were within their rights to defend their property from little Donald Jr.’s stream of pee by exercising there god given 2nd amendment rights against the unsuspecting Coffey family:
“Sheila Muhs started cursing at them ‘Get off our property,'” DeFoor said and fired off at least one round, causing the Jeep, which had started to leave, to veer off the road.
Muhs, he said, then put the shotgun down and chased after the Jeep on her all-terrain vehicle, eventually catching up to it on the levee about 100 yards away, the ATVs headlights pointed at the Jeep.
While that was happening, DeFoor said Gayle Muhs picked up the discarded shotgun and fired at the SUV. DeFoor said the trajectory of that shot showed that the back of the SUV was sprayed with pellets, it’s rear window blown out.
“The SUV was in the process to flee,” the officer said.
Nelton told the Houston Chronicle that they yelled at the Muhs after the first shot that they had kids in the car and to stop shooting, but another gunshot — possibly more — is all they heard in return.
Nelton said Destiny was in the back of the SUV screaming.
“She said, ‘Mama, they shot me. Mommy, they shot me.’ There was blood all over her,” Nelton told the Houston Chronicle.
Donald Jr. died from a shotgun pellets that het him in the head. Both Donald Sr. and his friend were also shot, in addition to five year old Destiny.
All this was done to defend property from a trespass that never happened by people who were not a threat, and never behaved in a manner that was threatening to the shotgun wielding Muhs. Still, I told you this was a trick question. There is no conflict between the right to life and the right to bear arms for conservatives. That’s because the “right to life” for most of them starts at the moment of conception and ends at the moment of birth. After that, you’re on your own, kids. I can paraphrase for you the NRA/wingnut response already: “Too bad the Coffeys weren’t packing their own heat. They should have armed themselves. Then they could have defended their family the way God and our founding fathers intended: with hot lead.”
Yes, if only little Donald Jr. and little Destiny and the adult members of the Coffey party had had their own firearms locked and loaded ready for a fight, all this could have been prevented. Another tragic case where a family of (no doubt) liberal wimps failed to exercise their Constitutional rights to carry guns like all Real Americans would have done.
As Kurt Vonnegut might say, “And so it goes.”
