Posted on 11/03/2009 3:30:57 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Edited on 11/03/2009 11:29:03 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A woman fatally shot a suspected car burglar Monday night in the parking lot of her northwest Houston apartment complex, police said.
The woman told Houston police she shot the man about 9 p.m. after she spotted him breaking into her car parked outside the apartment in the 5900 block of Pinemont at Alabonson.
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Vandalism at night.
Theft at night.
Burglary anywhere, *anytime*, day or night :)
In Connecticut, it is illegal to protect your own property with a firearm. Doing what she did would get her arrested for murder.
We had a multiple rape/murder of a Doctor’s wife and daughter, and people demanded those type laws be repealed, and the dem senate and Congress refused.
In the mean time, teenage kids in Hartford a New Haven get shot from cars in the street, and the Congress never tried to make that illegal: trying to stop drive by shootings. Everyone knows that if they made it illegal, drive by shoootings would stop immediately!
I love a happy ending.
In Connecticut, we arent even allowed to shoot inside our homes unless we are cornered!
LITERALLY, we are suppposed to jump out a window if it is availabl and escape first before using deadly force against someone.
Good ting I am on disability, I cant jump anymore. But I can squeeze...
It’s just a car and a man has lost his life. Is her car worth the life of a man?
Damned right it is. It’s her car and he had no right to try to break into it.How many other victims has this creep got. How many cars, and probably homes as well ,has this slime broken into. She did the State of Texas a favor.
Justified or not, killing someone is not a pleasurable experience.
If she was not under direct threat, she may very well be haunted by that fact the rest of her life, because she could have kept the gun on him while she called the cops, or maybe just wounded him.
“In Connecticut, it is illegal to protect your own property with a firearm. Doing what she did would get her arrested for murder.
We had a multiple rape/murder of a Doctor’s wife and daughter, and people demanded those type laws be repealed, and the dem senate and Congress refused.”
So why weren’t at least half of them voted out at the next election?????????
Anyone?
Anyone?
Remember the Texas pick-up truck driver who witnessed from a distance as a highway patrolman was shot by a motorist he'd pulled over? The pick-up truck driver got his deer rifle off the rack and blew the perpetrator to hell from 50 yards away. The police all just wished he'd gotten there a little earlier and didn't even release his name to the press.
Texas has a “nightime” law. If someone is stealing at night , you can use lethal force to stop it. Sorta location sensitive, though, better she is in Houston than Austin.....
Texas law is a bit different.
Remember the Texas pick-up truck driver who witnessed from a distance as a highway patrolman was shot by a motorist he’d pulled over? The pick-up truck driver got his deer rifle off the rack and blew the perpetrator to hell from 50 yards away. The police all just wished he’d gotten there a little earlier and didn’t even release his name to the press.[Unquote]
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Police are always more favorable toward the use of guns to protect themselves, than they are toward the use of guns by “civilians” to protect mere civilians. I am sorry, but that is how the brotherhood feels about fellow policemen.
I used to live in Texas, and was actually told by my lawyer that it was OK to shoot someone trying to steal a car. I would not enjoy doing that at all, but I do favor capturing car thieves, or scaring them away.
In some other constituencies it is illegal (assault) to point a gun at a human being, whether the gun is loaded or not. That means that if you are threatened and defend yourself, even with only a show of force, you must expect subsequently a long and uncertain legal problem, which could include jail time, a record, and loss of any gun rights you had enjoyed. I suppose protecting your life is worth it, but the law is really protecting criminals in such cases.
Many states (like NJ) ban even electrical defense weapons. In NJ, a sling-shot (which, for some unknown reason, they call a “slung shot”) is a prohibited weapon, in the same general category as an assault rifle.
Since these laws were promulgated, the rate of violent crimes and major property crimes has: a) dropped dramatically; b) stayed the same; c) increased. Which do you think?
Yep. She will be CLEARED. Mischief at night!
My uncle had a picture looking down the barrel of a revolver in his front window - ‘Forget the dog, beware of owner’.
Oh course, the screwdriver defense did not work for the HERO of the New York City subways, Bernhard Goetz, some 20 years ago, or so.
They even gave him a gold-plated .45 auto hand gun as a reward, later! LOL.
That's why Texas is awesome. I feel safer here. My only concern is that I don't shoot my neighbor thru the wall.
Other than that, it's GAME ON!
The state of Arizona concurs with the state of Texas.
The car is an extension of the home. It would be a clean kill in Arizona.
TheArizona
“Moving the body” was hyperbole! Better I should have said “lure him indoors and then shoot him”. My point is that most jurisdictions do not allow you to use deadly force to protect property — especially remote property.
Everyone also should realize that there are a lot of bad lawyers out there.
That's the Sonia Sotamayor reasoning. I heard her on C-Span say that during the rearings. Sonia said, "He could have jumped out of the window ond run away." I don't know why nobody ever mentioned that quote. I was waiting for it to make the news, and it never did.
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