[Hydroshock]

Come to TX, here if they are in your house nothing is said unless your weapon is crew serve or belt fed.

[Rummyfan]

Come to TX, here if they are in your house nothing is said unless your weapon is crew serve or belt fed.

LOL!

[pissant]

In texas, they allow you to track them down shoot them and toss them in the Pecos river. My kind of justice.

[from occupied ga]

Come to TX, here if they are in your house nothing is said unless your weapon is crew serve or belt fed.

What's wrong with that?

[blam]

"Come to TX, here if they are in your house nothing is said unless your weapon is crew serve or belt fed."

Same here in Alabama. Mess with my car and I am not prosecuted or subject to civil suits if I kill you.

My neighbor, who is from New Zealand, asked me to explain the new 'right to defend' law that recently passed. I told him if you're inside my fenced yard, you're a target

[Panzerfaust]

Come to TX, here if they are in your house nothing is said unless your weapon is crew serve or belt fed.

I believe self-propelled weapons are also exempt........

[stinkerpot65]

In Texas you can shoot to defend property outside. Had a famous case in Dallas where a black man killed three white men who were stealing his expensive hubcaps in an apartment parking lot.

On the news, one of the white trash wives of the thieves sobbed, "It was only property." Poor baby.

A grand jury no-billed the hubcap owner. Love a happy ending.

[El Gato]

Come to TX, here if they are in your house nothing is said unless your weapon is crew serve or belt fed.

Not even then if you've got the proper Federal paperwork for it.

[El Gato]

Come to TX, here if they are in your house nothing is said unless your weapon is crew serve or belt fed.

Well, this guy wasn't in her house. However that wouldn't matter in Texas. She was using potentially deadly force to stop a burglary. That's justification enough.

From the the Texas Penal Code

§ 9.42. DEADLY[0] FORCE[0] TO PROTECT PROPERTY.

A person is justified in using deadly[0] force[0] 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
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly[0] force[0] is immediately necessary: (A) to prevent the other's 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[0] force[0] to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.

[El Gato]

Come to TX, here if they are in your house nothing is said unless your weapon is crew serve or belt fed.

Well, this guy wasn't in her house. However that wouldn't matter in Texas. She was using potentially deadly force to stop a robbery or aggravated robbery. That's justification enough.

From the the Texas Penal Code

§ 9.42. 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
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary: (A) to prevent the other's 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.