Posted on 06/30/2023 9:17:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stealing tools is stealing a man’s livelihood. What SHOULD happen to the thief should be lingering.
Sounds like the homeowner was handling it the way he wanted to, he might be the type that likes a little dangerous physicality, and he had the pistol if needed.
I live in Texas. I have the legal right to use deadly force against an individual robbing my property. I will not use that right as the concept of killing a man or woman over property is not worth it. In Texas I have the total right of Castle Doctrine. I have the right of using deadly force against an intruder or one that is a threat to me on my property. I will use every skill I have to kill you. I am very adept with lethal weapons. I wish not to use them. I will use them in an instant to a mortal threat.
Concrete floor, should have just shot him.
You do not shoot people for talking your stuff. you shoot people trying to take your life or the life of loved ones and the life of people around you.
Not in Texas
Your stuff was purchased with a portion of your life.
No one should be compelled by goverent to meekly watch as a theif takes property.
Shoot the thieves and put their heads on a pike. Criminals are way too coddled. We use to hang people for thievery.
The MSM wants us to let criminals rob us or whatever they have planned. We can’t risk stopping them so we’ll just have to enable them.
And no, protecting yourself is NOT vigilantism, as much as the left would like to mislabel it and redefine it to be so to strip us of our right to defend ourselves and our property.
The left wants social chaos and mayhem. It’s a way they try to force people into giving them control in exchange for safety.
You are somewhat aptly named.
Fine, you roll over and let them destroy your life and livelihood.
What a garbage POV by this article’s sneaky author...
Should have shot to kill. Never shoot a warning shot.
Amen.
It wasn’t a warning shot, he just missed him.
Historically, plenty of people have been shot for larceny and robbery, and will probably remain so in the future.
If you don’t want to get shot, don’t be takin’ what’s not yours.
Taking a man’s tools is taking his lively hood.
Where I currently live, I wouldn’t shoot for theft, but if I lived in actual America, not Woke ass Commie land, I probably would, especially for my tools. Then again, I wouldn’t be worried about theft if I lived in actual America.
“ You do not shoot people for talking your stuff.”
In days gone by, that was certainly true. But now, government stands by and allows criminals to prey on citizens. People with an “extensive criminal record” should not be on the street, they should be on a prison work gang.
If someone broke into someone elses house, it is by default self defense.
Our county sheriff once told me, “If you feel you have to shoot him just drag one of his limbs over the threshold, that way there’s no questions.”
Tools are potential weapons. The homeowner would’ve been within his rights to ventilate the perp right there.
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