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Oh Bravo Sierra.

If someone tresspasses to rob you of your property, then you must consider your life at risk. It is a terrible thing...not sanctioned in the sense that it is gleaful or good...but sanctioned in the sense that it is a horrible necessity to defend your life.

Texas law allows people to use deadly force to protect their own property to stop arson, burglary, robbery, theft or criminal mischief at night, precisely because when criminals are committing these crimes, they must be deemed a mortal threat to your person.

The newspaper’s use of the inflammatory word “vigilante” is completely out of place here. In bygone days, vigilantes strapped on weapons and left their homes to seek out fugitives. When Mr. Horn woke that morning, he had plans to pursue no one. The criminals disrupted his peaceful day by invading the sanctity of his neighbor’ home. Horn was being a good neighbor, not a vigilante. His first choice clearly was that the police arrive in a timely fashion. It’s difficult to put ourselves in the shoes of this elderly man as he loaded his weapon and left the safety of his home to confront the criminals. Fear, adrenalin, the desire to do the right thing. Some of his language may be interpreted as bravado, as he steeled himself for a confrontation that could easily have gone the other way. No grand jury of decent Americans would indict him. He has earned the gratitude and support of all law abiding people. If politically-driven prosecutors attempt to lynch this hero, a tsunami of public indignation should be loosed upon them.

To: Miguel Bustillo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
RE: Texan a vigilante or brave law abider

Dear Mr. Bustillo,
You had a fair and balanced story going, until your last paragraph, and then you turned it into a propaganda story worthy of distain.

To state “Noting that Horn is white and the suspects were dark-skinned, Quanell X, a Houston activist, has accused the authorities of bias. “Mr. Horn did not have to kill those people,” Quanell X said at a protest on the street where the men were shot. “Mr. Horn became judge, jury and executioner.”

With that paragraph you changed a law and order story into a racist one. This means that you are nothing more than a race monger and propagandist, for the last paragraph is crap because it does nothing to enhance your original supposition but brings race into it. Since YOU brought up race how about being honest and point out that the DEAD criminals were illegal aliens. Then you could talked about how 90% of the crime in the USA is committed by either Blacks or Hispanics. You could have also mentioned that crime waves increase with the number of ILLEGAL ALIENS.

No by adding that garbage in the last paragraph you lost all respect as an honest writer and became nothing but a LIBERAL American hater. People like you, no matter what your skin color, are a disgrace to American and the free press.
Exton

but shouldn’t you fire the gun only when the theif is coming at you? If they are running away and not a threat at that point, it seems unjustified to kill for robbery. Police will chase down a criminal and arrest them, not shoot them as they are fleeing. I don’t know in this case, maybe the two men ran towards the man...seems unlikely since he was aiming a shotgun at them. I just don’t think trying to keep the goods from being stolen in ample cause for killing them.