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

When Mr. Hines started this thread little he suspected that he would
end up hemmed between the Trigger-Happy Crowd and the Bigot Crowd.

How can a man of his advanced age have such bad judgment?

The Trigger-Happy Crowd is very bad for the already controversial
Second Amendment.

No responsible gun owner should sup****t those true gun nuts.

The Bigot Crowd requires no comment.

Instead of doing a quick face about, or upon reflection temper his
position, after some 400 articles in the thread we have Mr. Hines
posting:

    "BANG! -- BANG! -- BANG!"

Fair Readers should not pay much attention to Mr. Hines on matters
related to guns and self-defense.   Over the years he's been asking me
the same questions as to what gun and ammo he should get for home
defense.  Which is odd for a military man.

Then again, how many times does a housing officer get to own?, carry?
never mind using a gun in anger?

Yet, Mr. Hines and I have been often in agreement on guns and self-
defense, but here is were we part ways.

Trigger-happiness and laws that permit it have no place in a civilized
society that has learned to use deadly force only in the gravest
extreme; and protecting replaceable property can never amount to a
gravest extreme unless it's a pacemaker or the like.  Such a society
will ultimately be the ONLY place in which individuals we'll be
permitted to own and bear arms without being marginalized.

Sadly many Southerners are still caught up in a culture of trigger-
happiness, not unrelated to the enormous success of Hollywood's Wild
West movies no doubt, and are years if not generations, from feeling
in the marrow of their bones what that police dispatcher -- a smart
Texan -- talking to Horn knew and put so well:

   "Ain't no property worth shooting somebody over."

Stay tuned for Mr. Hines next phase:

  "RAT - TA -TA -TA - TA - TA - TA - TA -TA"



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On Jul 16, 9:58=A0pm, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bingo!
>
> And that appears to be the way the Grand Jury saw it as well.
>
> Joe Horn told the burglars to freeze and they didn't...
>
> BANG! -- BANG! -- BANG!
>
> 'Nuff Said.
> --
> DSH