Posted on 07/01/2008 1:47:10 PM PDT by mondoreb
Albert Einstein once said "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Yesterday DBKP wrote about Joe Horn, the Texas man who was cleared by the Harris County Grand Jury after he shot two illegal "immigrants" when they had broken into a neighbor's home in Pasadena TX in November. Horn's actions, that of a private citizen using deadly force against someone committing a felony, were covered by a new Texas statute, the Castle Law, or Senate Bill 378.
“Don’t go outside the house,” the 911 operator pleaded. “You’re going to get yourself shot if you go outside that house with a gun. I don’t care what you think.”“You want to make a bet?” Horn answered. “I’m going to kill them.”
Horn had called 911 to report that he had witnessed the two men break into his neighbor's home in broad daylight. Horn, whose conversation was taped, ignored the operator's order to remain inside his home. The tape picked up the sounds of Horn "confronting" the two men as they left the house and headed for the street:
“Move,” Horn can be heard saying on the tape. “You’re dead.”Boom.
Click.
Boom.
Click.
Boom.
The two men died from gunshot wounds in the back while the whole incident was witnessed by a plainclothes detective who had just pulled up to the curb in front of Horn's residence. The detective stated that he had "ducked" under the steering wheel of his car when he saw Horn shoot the men for fear that Horn might mistakenly shoot him as the "wheel man".
(Excerpt) Read more at deathby1000papercuts.com ...
...they just keep leaving out that part!
DON’T MESS WITH TEXANS!
So there WAS an eye-witness.
P.S. the character played by Michael Caine in the original “Get Carter” was as much of a bad guy as the guys he was killing.
Ah, yes, every now and then you run across a real feel good story.
I didn't think the Feds would bother Mr.Horn until I learned to shootees were illegals .
They don’t seem to address that these two men would be alive today had they not decided to steal property from its rightful owner.
You can bet, from the attitude of the 911 operator, that the “detective” in the street would have let them go.
woo hoo - yea for us
I feel safe to know we can call 911 and the brave officer will promptly show up and duck behind the steering wheel.
Hahaha....Brilliant!
This is one story that caused an argument to break out every time we did an update. I was raised in the country: if you saw someone break into your neighbor’s place, grab a gun and go get ‘em!
Others here had different upbringings.
Oh well, that’s what makes the world go round!
Since there’s discussions every time we did a Joe Horn story, I was always afraid the story sounded schizophrenic: one paragraph is pro-Joe, another anti-Joe.
I guess it ended up being balanced that way, though.
All comments here are great!
I love a story with a happy ending.
Ricebug
Tom Sullivan is discussing this on his nationally syndicated show during this hour. He played the 911 tape in the last hour.
Don’t be surprised to see our wonderful Justice Dept. get involved, all broken up about the rights of the poor, unfortunate, innocent “undocumented workers”.
Alas... it is no more!!!
Now even the fish in one's own pond, or stream are the state's and a license/permit is required to fish in it!!!
This is progress??? This has been the looting of America's hard won tradition!!!
A 911 operator miles away on a telephone is not able to properly assess the situation. If more incidents like this occur, we will see a dramatic drop in crime...
Discretion is sometimes the better part of valor. Had he got out he might have gotten shot.
FMCDH...
The dead criminals were in the country illegally to rod and steel from rich Americans.
Only the ones that Americans don’t want to rob and steal from.
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