Posted on 09/28/2008 7:12:52 AM PDT by Chronically aghast in Florida
HOUSTON -- A victim of an overnight northwest Harris County home invasion shot and killed one of the suspects in an attempt to protect himself and his girlfriend, police said. More here: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7528114&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxhouston.com ...
If I bet that the perps were Black males, what are my chances of being correct?
“Victim fatally shoots one suspect.” That sentence is just wrong on so many levels.
last line...”and the men never fired their weapons...”
sounds like a good line for an activist trial lawyer to initiate a civil complaint against the homeowner.
IMHO
LOL! And they weren't robbed, either, so what exactly makes them "victims"?
Or ILLEGALS!!
In Houston that's probably more likely to be true. TX, and the Houston area in particular, is literally infested with illegals the same way a stray dog is usually infested with fleas.
Armed Citizen Ping
Maybe where you are, but not in TX. TX has one of the best "stand your ground" laws in the US, if not THE best. A dead or wounded criminal attacker or his survivors can't sue the intended crime victim into bankruptcy the way they can and often do in many northern and west coast states.
Let’s hope his punk friends learned their lesson.
Or Chocolate City Katrina “victims”.
Successful exercise of his 2nd amendment rights would seem a more appropriate phrase.
texas; a sane state.
There’s always good news somewhere. You just have to look for it. Naturally a successful firearm defense of life and limb will never make the MSM.
Unfortunately blam has a high probability of being correct. This brings up the poll that shows white Americans are racist if they have any negative beliefs about blacks. To worry about black violence is not a sign of racism but a sign of realism. Not to worry about it is a sign of either stupidity or denial. If this comment were critiqued by a liberal I would be equated to a member of the KKK but it is time to speak the truth to power. Power is the liberal establishment who intimidates anyone who speaks out about black violence. The real tragedy is that most of the violence is black on black.
I would love to see
“Home owner shoots/kills home invader” as headline
Point. But it's far better than describing the boyfriend as the 'suspect' and the thug as the 'victim' as we have seen many times in Old Media reporting.
Guns are a pretty good crime-deterrent in Houston. Unfortunately criminals wise up and attack demographics that are unarmed; generally asians and women. Violent crime has also gone up due to all the Katrina “refugees” being mostly criminals.
In my best deep south drawl. "You ain't from around these parts, is you, boy?
Now what happened to that post? Sort of spoiled the effect.
Yes, you’re right. I just thought it was funny that the armed citizen *successfully* defending himself is the “victim,” while the dead guy is a “suspect.” Is there some doubt that he was actually there at the time he was shot and killed?
Yup. I was expecting to be called a racist by the time you posted.
You may be correct but I don't care what color they are. There are plenty of scumbags of every color, race, creed and familial status. My bullets are color blind. LOL
Well, this story *is* from Texas. They have a long history of this kind of thing and I guess the PC BS just never did take hold well... ;)
Aside from the “suspects” who weren’t fatally shot, this is a cheerful report. Fine place, Texas.
It is working well in Fl. also and after the loss of so many Broward and Dade officers this past couple of years, the Broward Co. Sheriffs are now equipped with assault rifles. (AR 15's I believe). I am sure they are enjoying some successes also.
The homowner and her friend were victims of a home invasion. Texas newspapers don’t call the perps “victims” like so many other members of the media.
Good. this is the sort of thing that Obama and his marxists want to prevent. They want us to be victims of home invaders because they like the idea of the underclass taking what they think belongs to them from people who worked for it.
To be fair, the home owner have waited to be fired upon and then, and only then, he should have shot the guns out of both perps hands. That would be an acceptably proportional response.
“in my best deep south drawl, “you ain’t from around these parts, is you, boy?”
lol
no i ain’t. i ain’t used to being in a place where sane people live.
I have all kinds of guns too; but a good protective hound works even better.
In most of the country those days are over.
“A victim of an overnight northwest Harris County home invasion shot and killed one of the suspects in an attempt to protect himself and his girlfriend,”
I think killing a home intruder is not an “attempt.” An attempt suggests he tried something that didn’t work. It worked.
Uh, maybe having their home invaded? Whaddya think?
“so what exactly makes them “victims”?”
The apparent fact that their home was unlawfully and violently invaded by men committing felonies.
Violence by the invaders is common and reason enough to consider their lives forfeit. The lawful occupants of the home are victims of the felonious invasion. Because one of the occupants was able to defend them they did not become victims of further and physical harm.
Good point on the room temperature perp.
Does anyone still have a copy of the video taken in Houston after a neighbor shot and killed a black guy robbing his neighbor’s house, and a group of black guys dressed in suits tried to walk through the neighborhood and hold some kind of event? The neighbors ran them out of town, and the video is hilarious, but I have lost my copy.
That was Qaunell X and the new Black Panthers protesting Joe Horn in Pasadena after Horn shot and killed the preps.
“in most of the country those days are over.”
thank goodness.
Thank you so much!
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“I just thought it was funny that the armed citizen *successfully* defending himself is the “victim,” while the dead guy is a “suspect.” “
The armed citizen is a victim of a home invasion, by definition, anyone engaged in an illegal activity is a suspect and cannot be a victim, not matter what happens to him/her. This article appears to have gotten it correct.
A couple who lived near us at some time in the late 1980s were also victims of a terrifying home invasion, except that instead of a criminal gang they were invaded by an out of control police drug squad acting on a bogus tip from a known druggie liar. The young wife was asleep in her bra and panties when the invasion began in the wee hours of the night, and she was dragged out of bed and held in those brief items of underwear on the bedroom floor at shotgun point for over an hour while their home was ransacked and practically ruined by cops looking for illegal drugs that were never there to begin with. Her husband claimed that he vigorously objected to her being held nearly naked on the floor while male cops stepped around and over her, and pleaded with the cops to let her cover herself with a sheet from the nearby bed. But if he told the truth about their incredible response all he got for his pleas were shouted in his face threats of being separated from her in another room if he continued to protest.
There was a local storm of outrage by the public as more details of the totally outrageous behavior of the cops and the fact that the raid was the result of a bogus tip were very reluctantly released to the local media, and the couple brought a lawsuit against the police dept and separate suits against one or two individual cops. We moved away quite a long time after after the lawsuit was filed and it had still not gone to trial when we moved so I have never learned how it turned out. But I hope the cops who were responsible were fired, heavily fined, and then jailed in a prison along with cop-hating criminals.
I have no idea why the national media didn't jump all over that incident with all four feet, but maybe it was because back then there were no cable/satellite network programs I know of like those today that specialize in following that kind of thing in the very tiniest detail for weeks or months, or until a new outrage takes center stage and the old one drops off the program's radar screen.
Thanks for the ping; post. Great thread. Thanks to all posters.
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