You remember the days when there wasn’t a lot of crime down here to report? Guy arrested for urinating in public behind the dumpster. I used to have a lot of those in the police blotter.
I’m a gun guy. Handguns, a shotgun, so-called assault rifles; but despite that, I’ve finally reached the conclusion that rifles like the AR-15 and the AK- 47 with their high-capacity magazines are good for only one thing — killing a lot of innocent people, including, sadly, children, grandchildren, teachers.
Most people don’t know this, but the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, as have lower federal courts, that police have no Constitutional duty to protect the public. The only exception is someone who is already in police custody.
McAllen resident Randy Francis Davis, who turns 61 this August, hasn’t had it so easy since his divorce in the spring of 2019. Impossible question to answer for those who don’t know him very well: Did the divorce somehow facilitate his downward spiral, or did his bad habits lead to his divorce?
I have two friends going through cancer treatments, which is tough to watch even though I know both will fully recover. It’s the journey from here to there that’s the hard part. One guy I’ve known for about 25 years; the other dates back 55 years.
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