[Ratman83]

In Texas, if you could reasonably fear for your safety or of those around you, and if you had the gun with you in a legal manner, you would not be going to jail.

That is what the law says just like in FL but it does not always work that way, ask Zimmerman.

[thackney]

Zimmerman, like any of us who shoot another, will have to convince others that there was reasonable fear for his safety and he legally had the gun.

I did not claim it would be an immediate pat-on-the-back and no consequences. But if the above is shown true, there will be no 20 year sentence as the poster suggested.