Reasons To Carry

Why Carry?

Because some men are just Evil

I could easily call this column Reality 101 and it'd work. These are real individuals, not actors. This is the real, dirty, gritty life some people live. These are people who will murder you for the coins in your pocket (or $2 in your wallet).

Every once in a while a news story reminds us that there are people in the world who are simply nothing more than animals. They prey on others for their own gain and care nothing about the consequences of their actions.

It doesn't matter that this was a black on white crime. Black, brown, white or purple-spotted, the skin color makes no difference. They could have easily been white kids and my response would be the same. Animals belong in cages.

So it was on the night of June 18th, 2008. Two Texarkana teens, Demarius Cummings and his cousin James Broadnax had smoked some marijuana and were looking for some kind of action. Riding the buses in Dallas, they decided to commit a robbery and boarded a DART train for Garland, Texas. Why go to Garland? Because, as James Broadnax put it...

Cuz that's where all the rich white folks stay at, y'know what I'm sayin'?

Demarius Cummings claims they were not planning on committing murder in Garland, only robbery. They had stolen their aunt's "chopper" (a Kalashnikov rifle) to swap on the street for a pistol, and taken the handgun on the trip. The two discussed killing, but Cummings claims he did not believe it would happen. Broadnax concealed the pistol, and the two boarded the night train to Garland.

Around half past midnight, in Garland, the two teens spotted Matthew Butler and Stephen Swan as they left Butler's Zion Gate Records, a Christian music studio. The two business-men stopped to chat and smoke cigarettes in the parking lot near Butler's car.

The teens approached the two men and asked for a cigarette. Suddenly, Broadnax pulled his gun. Without warning or hesitation, he shot Swann, then Butler. As each man struggled to get back up, Broadnax shot them again, this time in the head, killing them. The killers rifled the pockets of the dead men, getting a whole two dollars, and the keys to Butler's car. They drove Butler's tan 1995 Crown Victoria to Dallas, and hid the pistol.

The next morning they switched the license plates at the home of a relative, pawned a few tools found in Butler's car, and tossed Stephen Swann's ID out the car window as they left in the stolen automobile heading back to Texarkana. There, they were apprehended after a traffic violation.

A bicyclist had discovered the two dead men's bodies lying in a pool of sticky blood and spent shell casings at about 1:00 AM the previous night. Both criminals are charged with capital murder. Bond is set at one million dollars each. Both victims are dead.

The video below is a jail interview of James Broadnax. The video is chilling in that it shows just how callous and uncaring the killer is about his victims and the impact his actions will have on the families of his victims.

Caution: Graphic Language!

Because his life was "hell", Broadnax uses that as an excuse to brutally murder two men to get something he didn't have. Their stuff. He did not give them any chance to survive nor does he show any remorse for killing them.

Reason to Carry #83

It's shocking the number of You Tube videos that show crimes occurring. Type in "sucker punch" in the search bar and you get plenty of videos. But this one I selected below shows just what kind of human excrement exists on our streets and the their attitudes towards others.

The story, as I understand it, is that a production crew was doing a documentary on drugs. When they attempted to interview this man, he went wild and then demonstrated that he wasn't afraid of "nuthin'".

Warning: Very Graphic Language!

I'm sure many of you feel like I do. Had it been my car, his attack at the driver's window would have earned him a 230-grain frontal lobotomy. A touch of chlorine to the gene pool, as it were.

These are the kinds of animals that the gun-control lobby fails to acknowledge. The kind that will kill you for trivial gain. The kind who will take what they want instead of working for it honestly.

The next time you argue with anti-gun types, ask them if to look up Broadnax on You Tube and then tell you if this is the kind of person they seek to protect with new gun laws. Because that's what their laws do by disarming the honest citizens.