Posted on 08/23/2016 9:24:46 AM PDT by rktman
In some states maybe but in some states it would be permissible if he was fleeing with property.
If you don’t know the state laws, the default should be that they won’t let you shoot the perp to recover your property.
Article writer is spot on.
“Our firearms are for self-defense when lives are on the line, folks. Keep in mind that every bullet fired at another human being is likely to carry a cost with it in terms of time, money, and personal anguish. Never fire a shot unless you absolutely must to save lives.”
Also add:
“Every single bullet has a lawsuit attached to it”
Marty Hayes, J.D.
http://armedcitizensnetwork.org/index.php/january-2015-network-journal/321-president-s-message
Yes I agree, all gun owners should know the laws of his/her state without any doubt.
Well, Texas is special.
The Common Law of Texas (to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas)
They buy their bourbon by the case, and never shun the cup,
They ride around in Cadillacs, and smash each other up;
And when they litigate the case, it’s the weirdest ever seen,
Because the poor benighted courts try to follow Leon Green.
It’s the damnedest jurisdiction
This country ever saw,
It has the queerest people,
The most peculiar law.
They have some nuts in Ioway,
And some in Tennessee,
But the common law of Texas is
A thing of mysteree.
They enter into arguments, and then they have a fight,
They call each other dirty names, and brood on it all night,
They lie in wait for sixteen hours behind an old rail fence,
And shoot the fellow in the back, but it’s all in self-defense.
It’s the damnedest jurisdiction
This country ever knew,
And all its jurisprudence
Is twisted like a screw.
Connecticut’s a crazy place,
And so is Arkansaw,
But Texas has, of all the states,
The most peculiar law.
They raise an oil well derrick in the city hall front yard,
And when the damn thing blows to hell they take it mighty hard.
Petroleum and rocks and mud are strewn all o’er the sod,
It makes a most unsightly mess, but it’s just an act of God.
It’s the damnedest jurisdiction
This country ever had,
It has ten thousand cases,
And all of them are bad.
Oh, Minnesota’s off the beam,
And so is Idaho,
But Texas has the wildest law
Upon this earth below.
A widow seeks indemnity upon a policee,
And she recovers double, with her attorney’s fee,
For when she loaded arsenic into her husband’s beans,
The late lamented met his death by accidental means.
It’s the damnedest jurisdiction
There is from coast to coast,
There’s crazy law all over,
But Texas has the most.
They’ve lunatics in Michigan,
Also in Delaware,
But the common law of Texas
Will really curl your hair.
A loyal son of Texas goes out upon a spree,
And perpetrates six murders, some rape and burglaree;
He ends upon the gallows-it’s a proper end, of courseBut
the reason that they hang him is, the bastard stole a horse.
It’s the damnedest jurisdiction
In the entire U.S.A.,
And what will happen next there
No man alive can say.
They do strange things in Maryland,
Likewise in Oregon,
But Texas has the wildest law
That e’re the sun shone on.
They ask the jury questions, which may number twenty score,
Instructions that they give them take seven days or more,
And when the case comes on appeal the record grows and grows,
And what the last opinion holds, alas, God only knows.
It’s the damnedest jurisdiction
Upon this planet sad,
Its whole judicial process
Is absolutely mad.
There’s schizophrenia in New York,
Also in Illinois,
But the common law of Texas is
A psychiatric joy.
Yep...I took the same course in FL, and once the guy flees, it is no longer considered “self-defense”.
He should have fired his shotgun through the front door like the Vice President told us to do! < / sarcasm off >
Nietzsche was (perhaps unfortunately) a smarter fellow than people give him credit for.
Kind of like Machiavelli in some ways.
What Body?
That is exactly what got Michael Dunn convicted in Jacksonville in 2014. He emptied his gun into a fleeing car.
Yea, when someone is fleeing and presenting no direct threat to you, its not justifiable to shoot them, at least not in most states that I know of... Now if he was fleeing and shooting back at you, feel free to unload the clip into his torso.
“I was taught by a retired cop that if you shoot someone on your lawn or doorstep be sure to drag the body into the house.”
A surefire way to increase your prison sentence by 15 years.
Unfortunately he went overboard with his attack upon Christianity. However, I consider him one of the greatest historical and social commentators of the 19th century to date.
“What Body?”
Best. Advice. Ever.
Uh. that may have worked back in the day before Fluorescein.
In Florida and I don’t want to risk it now where I am. Juries are too flakey.
The moral of the article is that if you’re going to shoot a perp, better kill him and if he didn’t have something that could be construed as a weapon, give him one.
1. This sounds like a bad shoot unless the perp had a firearm.
2. Shooter is very lucky the perp survived, downside will be a likely civil suit.
3. Shooter will probably achieve plea bargain and probation.
4. Shooter is a darn good shot, hit perp multiple times with a pistol from “across the street” which means probably 50-60 feet, and in a tense situation. That’s not easy, ask a cop.
“Uh. that may have worked back in the day before Fluorescein.”
Lol. The cop that gave the advice was from Texas. Does that change the equation?
That’s a prescription for going to jail for life. Forensics will take you down easily. That crap hasn’t worked since the ‘50’s.
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