Four dead thugs, sounds like a good week to me.
I love Texas.
It's interesting to see the reaction of FR to this true American, interesting but not surprising. No one cares that his name is Hispanic. What matters is that he is a legal resident or citizen who is a a productive member of society - and who as a bonus acts like the rest of us real Americans or at least as we hope we would act. Unlike the bigoted liberals who use race as a weapon to try to intimidate conservatives, it seems in the several discussions on this shooting like our members are entirely indifferent to race. A great American once said that we should judge each other by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin. FR seems to have accepted that ideal, while today's Dems consider it racist.
More happy endings for these poor miguided youth who’s daddies did not love them.
Guess the Katrina effect is still in Houston.
“Houston Police have identified two of the three robbers killed during a shootout with a jewelry store owner yesterday as Nelson Wilfredo Tambora-Ramiro, 21, and Onilton Bolanos Castillano, 38.
HPD spokesman Kese Smith said the two men had Honduran identification on them. He said their immigration status is uncertain.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7343008.html
Unfortunately, failure to police our borders contributes to a lawless society. While I believe most illegals would be generally law-abiding or at least nonviolent were they legalized, their very act in defying U.S. law to get into the country evidences an attitude of “laws are all right, so long as it benefits me but I will disregard laws which I find inconvenient.”
When a society based on the rule of law lets a critical mass of its residents disregard inconvenient laws, they are sowing the wind and will reap the whirlwind. Ironically, what made many of the illegals want to flee their own countries is the prevalent phenomenum in those countries that laws don’t apply to those in power. Each ruling group in those countries tends to use that time in power to ransack the government for itself and its friends until it is tossed out in favor of another ruling group which does the same thing. Those same pathologies are crossing the border with the illegals and the U.S. government ignores that inconvenient fact.
Proprietors of small businesses in Houston's hardscrabble East End, resentful of criminals who can wreck their lives in a matter of moments, are striking back.
Way to go! Keep up the good shootin'!
[I wonder what percentage of these criminals are Katrina transplants?]
Prayers for Mr. Castillo ... "Greater love hath no man ..."
Self defense is a human right.
They should charge him with murder.