Texas police are investigating an overnight shooting at the Houston office of state Sen. John Whitmire, the Houston Chronicle reported Thursday.
Whitmire said in an interview with the Chronicle his staff initially thought the damage to his office was caused by heavy thunderstorms in the area. Then he noticed bullet slugs on the floor.
“There are bullet slugs everywhere,” Whitmire said. “One lodged in a framed picture. It’s pretty amazing.”
Whitmire called his office a “crime scene” and noted the shooting was “concerning in this day and time.”
Houston police have not yet identified a motive for the crime, according to the Chronicle’s report.
Whitmire has served in the Texas Senate for over 30 years and is the longest-serving current member. He is a vocal critic of the state’s gun laws and has spoken out against the recently passed campus carry law.
On the day the bill legalizing open carry for handguns passed the Texas Senate last March, the Houston Democrat spoke from the Senate floor. Whitmire said his fellow lawmakers were “making a very serious mistake.”
Now, I wonder why anyone would shoot up his office? It’s a mystery!
It is so nice to see the “good guys with a gun”, the responsible(?) gun owners of Texas expressing their opinion regarding one of the few rational members of the Texas legislature. Is this what we all have to look forward to?
How manly, courageous and mature to do this. The gun culture in the United States is pure insanity.
Applying Occam’s Razor, the simplest answer is that the bullets gained sentience and shot themselves at the office to protest Whitmire’s anti-bullet bigotry. Bullets are people too, my friend. Save the bullets!!
This makes me sick - Whitmire is one of the few Texans in the lege that I’m actually proud of.
I can’t get out of this state fast enough.