Re: The Saga Of Joe Horn: Texas Man Cleared In Shotgun Shootings

On Jul 9, 4:25=A0pm, "Raymond O'Hara" <raymond-oh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> The killing was criminal Horn should stand trial for murder.
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> > Not according to a Harris County Grand Jury, who heard the evidence,
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> > the law as it relates to justifiable use of deadly force - and
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> >> If Texas law allows to take life to defend property as I believe it
> >> does, then Texas need be put on trial.
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> > The Texas Penal Code provides for the justifiable use of deadly force
> > under certain cir***stances including the protection of property and
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> > order to prevent the theft of property at nighttime.
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>http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/PE/content/htm/pe.002.00.00...
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> > Your comment that Texas needs to be put on trial is ridiculous.
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> > Under our system of jurisprudence, laws may be changed in a number of
> > ways. By the legislature, or by the Courts on a finding that they are
> > unconstitutional. The People of the State of Texas have every right to
> > amend the law through their elected representative if they so desire.
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> > fact, the People of the State of Texas have further defined their
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> > use Deadly Force in protection of their property as recently as this
> > year - when the Castle Doctrine took effect in law. =A0Now under the
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> > citizen has no responsibility to retreat prior to using deadly force.
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> > So exactly in what judicial jurisdiction do you propose putting Texas
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> > Nigel
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> it wasn't his property.
> shooting people who stole a neighbors TV =A0is not a good public policy.

Those are the incidents mostly responsible for the international
perception that the U.S. is Dodge City.

There are many states where self-defense and gun laws have struck a
fair balance.  I happen to live in one of them.   If you fear for your
life or the life of others you are justified to use deadly force.
And you get wiggle room too, especially in one's home.   You shoot a
home intruder, the police will mop up for you.   But if a guy takes my
laptop and runs to the garden, no longer being a threat, I cannot
shoot him in the back to get my computer back.   And rightly so.

Have Texans not heard of home contents insurance?   I admit that
recounting how you filed a claim with Allstate isn't as ***y a tale as
telling how you blew the perp away and blood and lung spattered over
the rose bushes.   That's true.   But that's what armadillos and other
varmint are for.  They can enjoy killing them too... at least a
little.