I saw the news report on Bandila last night, read a discussion thread on the topic in Peyups.com, and followed the link to the report on the Inquirer.net.
Then I came back to the Peyups.com thread and posted this reaction:
Good riddance. Another bunch of dumbass Caviteno hotheads bite the dust.
I’m referring of course to a shootout between rival feudal lords from the fair province of Cavite over a traffic altercation that resulted in six stiffs in the morgue.
My heart bleeds for them. These are people who drive around town with armed escorts and sirens — expecting motorists with less important things to do to give way so that they may attend to their more important matters expeditiously. It was found too that both groups were armed with handguns. I suppose when you pack a piece, you expect a reason to use it to come up at any time and, by golly, this was one of them!
According to Mayor “Strike” Revilla (and this coming from a bozo who goes by the name “Strike”):
It was a simple case of misunderstanding that became heated and blew up.
Indeed. For a bozo, I like the way he thinks.
It’s simple, really™.
Simple, that is, because no innocent bystander was caught in the crossfire, considering all this happened in a public market (though at 9.45 pm, maybe there weren’t any innocent bystanders at the time).
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I cannot understands why some government officials, like politicians
travel with armed bodyguards and escorts. Armed to the teeth with
high powered rifles. As if they are in a war zone. They have even
sirens blaring to remind us that they are coming.
These people have too much Bad Conscienses that they became Paranoids
thinking the world is there to get them. I think they cannot sleep also at night without lights on.
Apparently, the underlying reason to the shootout is Muslims’ bullying and them not being good neighbors of the Caviteno locals.
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090624-212109
Good riddance indeed
Guns in the Philippines should go the way of tobacco in the US. Slowly strangled through publicity, taxed and regulated away.
Joe
This incident only demonstrates the fact that responsible gun ownership is better said than done – not in actual praxis.
Likewise, we cannot look beyond the fact that a heated altercation between the two groups occurred that triggered an exchange of gun fire.
It is no longer of any moment whether one group belong to the political elites or that another group are Muslim community organizers.
They decided to shoot each other – well, that’s just it. Now, they are part of gun-related statistics of deaths.
watching 24 Oras reporting the incident and could not believe that a dad more than 50 years old had to fetch his son and other personalities so they can engage the “muslims” in a gunbattle right in the marketplace. finally got my sense of bearing from a basketball buddy who said that his friend, a PT from Michigan went home in Cavite and died in a shootout with rival family of muslims… not just a case of traffic altercation but a feud that has been abrewing.
think also of the Manondo and another family in Lumban Laguna whose family members started killing each other. or the jozon’s and the perez’s in Nueva Ecija. have guns will kill. typical pinoy mindset.