Posted on 06/15/2018 6:01:58 AM PDT by Simon Green
Car jacking has it’s pit falls. Nothing to see here, move along.
Oh but he did. Don't want to get shot. Quit stealing sh*t!
Yeah, well, did Macklin check to insure there was not a child in the back seat? I doubt it. Regardless, if I am in front of a car that is peeling out towards me in a reckless nd dangerous manner- I might just make the lethal force equation and respond to protect my life, the fact that the shot went into the drivers door etc is irrelevant- that’s like saying, well the bullet missed me or the knife just cut my shirt, so no harm no foul.....
I believe it would be justifiable homicide at night in Texas.
When has it ever become legal to drive off in someone else’s car?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Tawk bout a warped reality...these people feel they should not encounter ANY resistance when victimizing law abiding, hard working citizens.
The young feller put himself in harms way.
But... but...he was just getting his life together.. he was thinking about getting a job to help support his four kids, each by different baby mamas... and he was an aspiring rapper.
“But Pooky was going back to school”
Yes, he was turning his life around, as an aspiring rap artist.
Shooting someone who is committing a felony used to be legal in most jurisdictions before 1950.
Shooting someone who is stealing your car is still legal in Texas, at night.
Stealing other people’s property is not acceptable. We cultural Marxists attempting to make it so.
What’s the big deal her brother died?
The insurance will take care of it.
Typical attitude of a large class of people.
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Defense of Property
You cannot shoot someone for stealing your car. You cannot shoot someone for stealing your wallet. You cannot shoot someone for wandering over your property line. In the eyes of the law, life has priority over possessionseven a criminals life. You may defend your own safety with the use of force, but not your stuff.
“I believe he got just that already.” Agree.
(I realize it may have been self defense)
Personally, I think you should be able to “legally” shoot the sumanabitch. BUT....
https://www.concealedcarry.com/law/can-you-shoot-a-carjacker/
Yeah, I figured. A car is considered a deadly weapon.
You cannot shoot someone for stealing your car. You cannot shoot someone for stealing your wallet. You cannot shoot someone for wandering over your property line. In the eyes of the law, life has priority over possessionseven a criminals life. You may defend your own safety with the use of force, but not your stuff.
Cultural attitudes are changing. I see juries tending to reverse this doctrine, or at least, having self defense expanded quite broadly.
The Chicago case is an example of this.
A great many people are fed up with crime, and do not care what happens to thieves.
I will not be surprised to see the law itself changed closer to Texas law in the nest decade or two.
“Seems to me many, many potential victims were spared by eliminating this threat to humanity and civilized society that otherwise would have continued for at least 30 more years had it gone unchecked.”
Well put.
Young black men: 3% of the population. 53% of the murder.
In Texas it’s still legal to hang horse thieves.
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