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Post 44 by Calamari laid out the actual citations of Texas law on the matter.

Texas law on deadly force is the best of any state I have been in. If only they had open carry.

Unfortunately I had to move from Texas to Virginia. There is open carry here but shooting through a door will get you arrested. The bad actor better be inside your house and threatening you. As soon as he turns around to leave you can't do anything. In fact the law says that if there is a shooting, someone is going to trial, period.

Ahhh, I must have missed that one...Thanks...

But I almost have to play devils advocate here...

If someone were "banging" on my front door...

And I wasn't expecting someone...Or something happening to cause the "banging"...

I would without a doubt be alert, calm and collected, be in a position to answer the "banging", from a safe position, and be able to better determine if its actually a threat...

Being prepared that way (in a fantasy world) would allow me "not" to actually consider shooting through the door...Something I would not consider doing anyway...

Its a difficult call all around...I do not envy anyone that decision...

Of course we do not have all the facts...And probably never will...But this should be tagged as a defensive shooting, and we should all learn from this incident and try to apply what we know about ourselves and what we understand about the law and how it applies to us in our own locale...

Virginia is a great State...I don't recall directly...But its an open carry State isn;t it???

I'll have to check Packing.org now...

See what you did! hehehe

Later,
OSC(SW) Steve