I guess in Texas it’s the rancher’s job to maintain fences for his animals, and in Colorado it’s the neighbors job. Ok, I can understand why the guy who moved there from Texas was frustrated by that, but you have to follow the law in the state where you live even if you don’t like it, and shooting a man’s cows is pretty low.
He must’ve known shooting them was totally illegal too, since he got a bunch of Mexican immigrants to do it instead of himself.
Texas is a “fence out” state except in certain circumstances as pertains to local law.
http://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/fence/tx_fnc.htm
In other words, Hawn is an ignorant big-city jerk who knowingly bought land next to an open-range buffalo ranch, didn’t fence his property properly and then killed and DISPOSED of his neighbors livestock.
In Texas, that is known as cattle rustling...