Stop Rick Perry before he kills again [View All]

[PDittie]

Not talking about the latest death row execution. No, Our Governor AMF blasted a coyote while out on a run.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don't mess with my dog.

Perry says he needed just one shot from his laser-sighted pistol to take down a coyote that was menacing his dog during an early morning jog in an undeveloped area near Austin.

Perry told The Associated Press he sometimes carries his pistol, loaded with hollow-pointed bullets, when he jogs on trails because he's scared of snakes — and that he'd seen coyotes in that area.

When the coyote came out of the brush toward his daughter's labrador retriever puppy on a February jog, he charged it and shot it with his .380 Ruger pistol.

"Don't attack my dog or you might get shot ... if you're a coyote," Perry said.

This raises several questions:

-- Hollow points and a laser sight on a .38 caliber pistol?

-- Worn while jogging? (At the waist, or shoulder holster? Either way seems cumbersome for a run, not to mention the chafing.)

-- To protect himself against snakes and his dog from a coyote? Neither of those poses much threat to a person; in fact a coyote will typically turn tail if you so much as stomp your feet.

-- Seriously?

Even in the absence of his detail of bodyguards (several similarly-heavily-armed Texas Rangers) this sounds overzealous in its safety precaution, considering that his only real danger is the crazed Austin liberal with a gun, or the adoring throngs of conservatives that might bum-rush him Justin Bieber-style while he's outside the gates of the $9000-a-month mansion Texans are paying for him to live in (while the Governor's mansion is being rebuilt).

And I just thought he was afraid to debate Bill White.

This man is the biggest. coward. alive.