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To: Sopater

Unless the kid directly threatened an attack, this was murder.

All the tough guys on this thread are wrong.

End of subject.


127 posted on 03/13/2014 3:37:09 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker
Unless the kid directly threatened an attack, this was murder.

You also obviously have never lived in Texas. Unless things have changed greatly since I left, just the fact that the kid was in his house, was unknown. and made a sudden movement is enough. Heck, the "castle doctrine" applies not only to protecting people, but property. If you catch someone breaking into you car, parked in the driveway, and he starts running away with your property, you could legally shoot him to stop him from getting away with your property. At least, that's the way it was just a few years ago.

So if you can shoot someone running away just to keep him from stealing your stuff, what makes you think you have to wait until someone who is in your house at 2 AM without your permission threatens to attack you before you can do so?

155 posted on 03/13/2014 4:24:52 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Talisker

so the guy had to wait until whatever the kid was reaching for was pointed at or being lunged at him before firing? since when?


204 posted on 03/13/2014 5:53:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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