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You forgot the “throw down piece”.
This is the very thing a county sheriff told me to do.
What happened to the “shoot shovel and shut up” advice?
If it is not a righteous shoot, don't do it. If it is, do it sufficiently. No apologies.
Forensics alone would put you in jail. You can’t shoot someone on the front porch without their figuring it out. If you are threatened by the guy on the porch or front yard use force and stand up for your actions.
Castle Laws are spreading throughout the country.
Just shoot the SOB and be done with it! ;)
If you move a body and say some bogus crap you’re done.
Here in Texas, there shouldn’t be any reason to drag him inside, if you were being threatened.
You had to excerpt your own article?
In Texas, “he needed killin” is still a defense.
When done, put the shoe back on the Perp. BTW, make sure you retie the shoelace the same as on the the other shoe.
Any questions?
I apologize. I did not realize you were the author, but please give more credit to others. This so called advice is simply a construct to explain in simple terms how our laws assume when one is at risk and may use deadly force and when one is not at risk.
It doesn’t take a law degree to see its not serious advice. (Unless of course your an Obama voter. Then all bets are off)
I thought you were to empty his wallet of all cash first.
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The advice I heard was “There should be only one story, and it should be yours...”
Wrong. First thing you do is make sure he’s dead. Dead bad guys can’t sue. Honest to God deputy teaching my CCW class said “forget that two shot crap...keep pulling the trigger till it clicks”
Friends told us this in Brazil when we lived there in the '50s.
Crime was rampant there, and in the space of 2 years in Sao Paulo I personally repelled 3 attempted break-ins - as the "man of the house," at age 9 and 10.
(But I was "big for my age;" by the time I neared 11, I was the height of the average Brazilian adult male.
And I had a .45, 1911 model.)
I’m guessing that you don’t know much about Free Republic.
If you did, you’d know that Freepers don’t need the advice you posted.
Yeah, looks like you’re just trolling for hits. If that is the case, bye bye.
If you want to associate, the join us, we’re not joining you.
Scenario: You are standing inside, and someone is standing outside on the porch facing you. You fire and the person collapses. You drag him inside and tell the cops he came in and you shot him. You - are going to jail.
What forensics will tell the cops is this: Little droplets of blood will blow outward from the guy, landing on the doorway in front of him, upwards to the ceiling, to either side of him, and downwards. The cops will know he was on the porch.
Then the cops will examine the area you said you were standing. They will note the lack of blood spatter upwards, sideways, downward, and backward from where you said he was standing.
Blood spatter tells a LOT.
Another myth is firing one into the suspect and then firing one in the ceiling and claiming that you fired a warning. The cops will know you were lying because if you fired a warning, then the gunpowder would land on the area around you and the suspect. A second shot would overlay the powder on you and the surrounding area with blood. It's extremely tough to beat forensics.