This article in our El Paso Times deserves comment.
According to the article an off duty Border Patrol agent allegedly saw three people allegedly pointing what allegedly looked like an automatic rifle at a building.
I guess we can skip the issue of how three people work together to point a single rifle. I certainly hope that one of them was not in front of the alleged automatic rifle.
The culprit
County sheriff’s deputies arrived and chased the three. The alleged automatic rifle turned out to be a paint gun.
Two of the alleged building killers were held “on suspicion of terrorist threat and evading detention”.
Imagine what they would have been charged with if they had actually squeezed the trigger.
There was a time when you did not get arrested until you had actually committed a crime.
There is a better way to handle youngsters.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Hold on, and if they had a more powerful weapon and the Sheriff’s dept did not respond you would say”we deserve better”….Also you may have missed the news that a few schools around the country have been shot up by “mental” teens…
Why not say “job well done” by our local law enforcement who place their lives on the line for our safety!
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Agreed.
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Haiduc, we deserve better than your comment.
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the teens were stupid and deserved to be scared out their wits. point a paint gun at me(i dont know that its a paint gun) and you will have a dead teen laying on the ground. the fact that the sheriff didnt fire at them is amazing. rocks were being thrown at the Border Agents. They did a good job not to kill the teen with the gun.
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