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 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?
They even gave him a gold-plated .45 auto hand gun as a reward, later! LOL.
That’s happened a few times. One incident had the DPS trooper under fire, the pickup driver had an M1 Garand that he was coming back from the range with. He happened to have several clips (not magazines, clips) still unexpended and upon seeing the trooper under fire, he proceeded to create some withering covering fire.