That`s what is wrong with society as a whole now. People don`t get involved to stop BS such as this. Time for crap like this to stop. The police are not personal body guards , nor or they personal protectors of your private property. Responsibility falls to us initially. Hiding in the closet is not the Texas way and certainly not that of a friend and neighbor. The cats knew what they were doing and the risk they were taking. They lost!
Follow this to it's logical extension. Horn didn't know what if anything they had taken from the neighbor. Would you kill a man for breaking your neighbor's window?
Would you kill a man for stealing a neighbor's TV set?
Would you kill a man for stealing a neighbor's garden hoe?
Would you kill a man for stealing a neighbor's loaf of bread?
Where the hell do you guys draw the line at life vs property? Would you kill a man for stealing a neighbor's stick of Doublemint?
When they entered his yard they were trespassing. While they were on the neighbors property they were trespassing.
Would you kill a man for walking on your yard without permission? For trespassing?
It was obvious what they were doing. There is not even a question on that.
No, it is not obvious. Yes there is a question. What did they steal? Do you know for sure they stole any item? They did apparently break and enter but I've seen nothing other than that. Do you know for sure they threatened Horn? I haven't seen anything proving that. Do you know for sure if they aggressively move towards him or did he aggressively move to block their exit path?
There's a shirtload of stuff that is not known at this point.
What does weapons have to do with it?
It relates to the threat. With no weapons it's much harder to see this as righteous self-defense. As I said, the question is open on whether they were just trying to leave and he intercepted them or whether they moved to confront him. Weapons would make the latter more plausible.
Yeah, he could have just ignored them, let them steal what they wanted and been on their way to their next break in.
Except that he did not ignore them. He called 911 and the cops arrived pretty much right after he shot them. It's quite possible that calling 911 was all that was necesary for the cops to catch them.
By Texas law, he had every right to do what he did.
I realize it was technically legal. IMO, it wasn't moral.
Tell me, if some minority kid runs up, grabs a pot of your petunias off the front porch and takes off are you going to kill him? You'd be legal in Texas you know.
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