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A Sonic Worker Was Allegedly Killed by A 12 Year-Old. Guess Which State, Guess Which Weapon. [1]

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Date: 2023-05-16

I did not have “12 year-old accused of murdering Sonic employee with an AR-15” on my list of possibilities this month. I had meteor lands in living room, flood, earthquake, a tornado in California, a Biblical-like bee plague, Ringworm spread, a Republican developing a conscience, and Taylor Swift throwing out her own security guard. I did not have this.

In the United States, I have to sit down and imagine the saddest, most ridiculous scenarios, and then wake up each day to find myself surprised. I shouldn’t be surprised by anything anymore.

But here I am.

First, let’s talk about where this happened, which is Keene, TX about an hour south of Fort Worth. To hear locals talk, this is a small town where “this sort of thing just does not happen.” The problem with that thought process, is there is no town in this nation where it can’t happen.

According to police, this started when 20-year-old Angel Gomez of Fort Worth arrived at the Sonic with others in his vehicle. Gomez allegedly began urinating in the back parking lot, so (32 year-old Matt) Davis came outside speak to him. There was a fight between the two, and that’s when police say the 12-year-old shooting suspect, a passenger, grabbed the AR-15 rifle from Gomez’s vehicle and shot Davis multiple times. He later died at the hospital. Police say Gomez ran away with the AR-15 but then returned and was arrested. The 12-year-old also took off.

Let me guess Ted Cruz’s response: “You mean to tell me this could have been avoided if Sonic had a bathroom?”

In the technical sense, maybe. It is peak 2023 America that someone would use the back of a fast food parking lot as a men’s room, and perhaps if there was a bathroom on site, this may not have happened.

Or..

If AR-15s weren’t sold like Slurpees and so prevalent that a 12 year-old could just grab one at will, ya, that might have prevented this too.

Davis had just started the role a few weeks ago, and leaves behind a 10 year-old son and his mom is working to bury him.

I just can’t Texas anymore. I can Illinois, California, Georgia, even North Carolina, but I can’t Texas. Stories of lunacy with the same gun, all the time, day after day, in county after county makes me just want to skip it altogether. But that goes for many places. In fact, most of the south is a no-go for me, and this makes me sad, because I know there are good people everywhere.

I don’t want to abandon anybody to the wolves.

But I also don’t want a side of lead with my double cheeseburger.

But for the ones who think staying at home helps, no, it doesn’t exactly. In Texas a mom who had recently moved from Pennsylvania was shot while sleeping by a neighbor trying to stop thieves. The bullet went through her wall into her bedroom and through her head. Her name was Bethany Mefford. But it was a handgun in that case.

Yesterday in New Mexico a young man decided to randomly shoot at homes and cars, and killed three people. He was armed to the teeth, and yes, one of those was an AR-15.

So the nation is being overrun by guns and gun violence. Before I go, let’s take a look at a few statistics.

1. 275 million. That is the number of registered vehicles in the USA.

2. 100 million, estimated number of cats in the USA.

3. 80 million, estimated number of dogs in the USA.

4. 433 million, estimated number of guns in the USA.

Guns will outnumber dogs, cats, and cars combined in the USA by 2025.

(Drops mic.)

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