At a news conference Friday, attorney Tom Lambright said his client was "just doing what everyone is supposed to do."
SHARÓN STEINMANN: CHRONICLE
Posted on 11/17/2007 7:33:50 AM PST by Dubya
At a news conference Friday, attorney Tom Lambright said his client was "just doing what everyone is supposed to do."
SHARÓN STEINMANN: CHRONICLE
Yes, he was doing what we are supposed to do.
IF we had fought to keep our good old neighborhoods.
IF we had fought to keep our downtown districts.
IF we had fought to keep our beaches.
IF we had fought to keep our jobs.
IF we had fought to keep our good teachers.
IF we had fought to keep our ____________ (fill in the blanks).
Nice shootin. To bad the law is going to get in the way and ruin this guys life. Hopefully the jury will let him off.
The same would have happened her.
Any individual is free to decide for himself if some particular property is something he wants to defend with a gun but any society that decides that mere property is nothing to shoot at someone over is cutting its own throat.
I never heard reported that the burglars had a gun? I can’t believe I am taking this position, but if they were unarmed, Mr. Horn is a murderer. If this were a home invasion, at his home, that would change things considerably. It wasn’t and he chose to leave his home, ignoring the instructions of the 911 dispatcher. If the men were unarmed, he murdered them. Law Enforcement isn’t allowed to just shoot people fleeing a scene and Mr. Horn isn’t above the law.
I haven’t seen a report of when the police actually arrived. Only that the 911 call lasted something like 10 minutes. Does anybody know?
Well, thanks a bunch for reporting that fact to any potential future burglars, or other criminal types who might make an uninvited visit to the Horn residence.
If I'm piecing the evidence together right, he heard the burglars break into his neighbor's home, called 911, and waited inside of his own home for the police while the burglars took their time to ransack the home. He got agitated believing they were going to get away scot free, grabbed his shotgun, and told the 911 operator he was going outside the confront them. When he stepped outside he found them just 15 feet away, coming toward him. He warned them, then fired. He hit one in the chest (corroborating his version of the facts, that they were approaching him) and one in the side, probably as he was turning away to run after the first burgalar got hit.
Under the circumstances it appears clearly to be a case of self-defense.
I wonder what kind of load he had. My 12-gauge has #2 shot in a 3-inch magnum. No doubt about it, that's a kill round. Either way, he did the right thing.
I definitely agree.
That was confusing to me. Where did he get the shotgun then?
There are only two things that are right about this whole story and they are dead!
Just because someone doesn’t have a gun doesn’t mean they can’t harm or kill you. If I came upon a crime scene and the criminals started towards me, I would feel threatened.
“it can’t be during the day”, said craig jett, a criminal defense lawyer association member.
and so it starts. these people are going to try to indict this man; smart-alecky, smarmy s.o.b.’s.; they’re probably going to speculate based upon their prejudicial attitude toward “white males”..
Hmmm. That sounds pretty ridiculous.
Exactly. People can be beaten or stomped to death or strangled.
The only real mistake Horn made was broadcasting to the dispatcher that he intended to do something to stop the burglars.
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