I didn't tell the kid that broke into the house across the street to stop. If I had, he would have ran, just like he did when the police told him to stop. Then what? The cops would have had to expend even more manpower looking for him if I scared him off. Instead, I let them handle the job and when he ran, they had him in their sights at all times and the fact that it was about 20 degrees that morning and the dumb idiot jumped a fence landing in the neighbor's filled swimming pool made their job much easier.

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For he is a merciful and compassionate God

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"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

Lets make a little test: A burglar runs away from your house with the $5 ashtray grandma gave you for Christmas. What would you do?

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That's fair enough, he sounds more moronic than dangerous tbh but what if he wound up harming the folks inside the place he was gonna break into? Say it was somebody with a weapon?

Horn's story is so fucked.

I think the undercover cop is backing up Horn just as a matter of convenience. The paperwork and the investigation would probably eat up too many dollars.

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

Yeah i mean i didn't think about it that much but he said when he told them to freeze they were at an angle anyway but at a possible angle to attack him and they moved after he told them they'd die if they did, and with his gun aimed in directly the same position as before (not moving it at all to adjust for their movements because of the very short amount of time) he fired which hit them at a diagnol point in the back.

I've never been faced with that situation (the people weren't home when the kid broke in...) but I would hope that I would have enough sense not to place myself in danger also....

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

Yup that was the best point anybody has made in this, which is you could also put yourself in danger too and sometimes it does happen that the person trying to protect someone does get hurt.

I haven't seen the bodies so I can't really address the angles only to say that one story did say that they were shot at different angles. Regardless, Horn seemed thrilled to be able to try out the new law and that's what I find sickening...

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

Hmmm...not sure about that, i think its more a case of his just sheer insistance not to let them go or to stay in his own house.

See maybe the dispatcher telling him to stay indoors didn't help either; see the police weren't there and all the while this guy keeps telling to stay inside and everything would be okay.

The one aspect nobody has even bothered to look at is how long it took for them to get there.

Only the one with Dorothy.

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Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

So you catch a kid in your driveway stealing the valve-stem-caps off your tires (they're maybe $.05 apiece. You kill him?

Please, do us all a favor and keep that style of "Justice" in Texas. It has no place in the civilized world.

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Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

Judging from the call, it took officers about 7-8 minutes to arrive, which IMO, is reasonable time. Horn stated to the dispatcher that he was going to kill the guys which definitely leads me to think he was lying about them going after him. Especially since he tells the dispatcher that one is laying in the neighbor's yard and the other one was going down the street. While the law may allow you to protect your property, I think Horn is nothing more than a vigilante hellbent on murder.

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

The law also allows us to protect other's property too, our law is very open.

He's not a vigelante unless he did break the law, which he didn't imo.

As for saying he would kill them, well he did but was allowed to do so, he did later say he did think they would come for him so i guess that's reasonable grounds under the law.

I am glad we agree on this, M, whatever our differences.

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