Posted on 07/14/2009 6:39:40 AM PDT by Texican72
If they are trespassing to burn your property, which is arson, the penalty should be some new holes in the torso...
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burt yet this own’t be classified as ‘hate speech’ and only Christians and conservatives wil lbe regarded as engagig in hate speech when they oppose homosexuality or democratic violations of our rights.
We’re on a fast track slide into the pit of hell I’m afraid!
If it had been a gay ‘rainbow’ flag or an Obama poster that was burned, you can bet the media wouldn’t report it as mere “vandalism”. They would say something like “right-wing extremists commit act of domestic terrorism”.
“What can happen in Texas if you catch someone committing arson?”
Brought to you directly from the Concealed Handgun Laws in Teaxs....make a special note of 2A....
PC 59.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is
justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41 ; and 60 PC s9.43. TEXAS CONCEALED HANDGUN LAWS
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly
force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the imminent commission of arson, burglary,
robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by
any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover
the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial
risk of death or serious bodily injury.
Don't know for sure, since I live in non-castle-doctrine North Carolina, but IIRC, I think you can legally shoot someone who is in the process of committing a felony on your property. Don't know how arson stands under Texas law (misdemeanor vs. felony, or only becomes a felony at a certain value level of the property being burned, etc.).
Thanks. I didn’t know the law word-for-word, but I suspected as much.
I hope they thought to put up a camera so they have whoever did it on film.
Flag burning ping.
And Marines know a thing or two about applying Deadly Force...
We would welcome you!
All sorts of things. Most of them involving lead.
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