And the media bias against guns continues this morning, courtesy of the Associated Press...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Spurned after a brief relationship, James Edward Martinez repeatedly stalked 29-year-old Sandra Walton, insisting he wanted her to quickly repay $1,000 he loaned the Fort Worth woman.
"She was no longer interested in him," Robert Foran, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney, recalled. "And in retaliation, he crept up on her with (an assault rifle), mowed down her friend, and then just laid waste to her as she sat in her car."
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Martinez declined to speak with reporters as his execution date neared. At his trial, the former welder and laborer insisted a friend was responsible for the slaying and had access to the murder weapon, an exotic Austrian-made assault rifle.
Exotic. Austrian made. Good grief, the way the reporter talks about it you'd think it was some sort of alien death laser hand-crafted by elves or something. But according to this story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, it was just a 5.56mm Steyr AUG. Really now, were the loaded words essential? I really do wonder what they'd have said if Martinez had used a scoped deer rifle, maybe one of these. Would it have been an "exotic Austrian-made sniper rifle" then?
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