So if your fellow Texans decide killing to save a pot of petunias is acceptable and laudable, you're fully in support? Your choice. I'd speak out against that but that's just me.
No, I already said that personally I wouldn't consider killing a child for stealing a pot of flowers a proportionate response. If it happened in my community, I would speak out against the act, urging greater restraint.
What I said is that I'll trust my community members to use their judgment. I'm more willing to risk that they err in excess than to risk that criminals may be able to act unimpeded because of the law being too restrictive.
Hmmm... criminal action. Are you with Jackal1 on shooting them for simple trespass? You see two shady looking guys crossing a neighbor's lawn headed for his back yard best go ahead and shoot just to be safe, nip their lawlessness in the bud and preserve the community from being later victims of these two?
Simple trespass? No. That would be both illegal and out of line IMO.
But if they are exiting his house and its obvious they are acting criminally, I am OK with them being confronted by a neighbor, and shot if they refuse to stop and wait for police. That's what happened in Mr. Horn's case, and I believe he acted acceptably.
OK, enough with that.
As I said, there has to be some common sense applied in these cases. IMO, the shoot-em-on-site crowd in here is not exercising any.
Horn had the cops on the way; he was not threatened while watching from his upstairs window. He forced this confrontation and he killed two men by shooting them in the back.
If you all think that reflects well on gun owners, advances the cause of the 2nd Amendment and will lead to greater gun freedom (incorporation, CCH, Open Carry) i would have to strongly disagree.
I didn't address the issue in those terms. Once again, I tell you I am speaking to how I like the law in my community to be, and how Mr. Horn handled himself in this incident.
I'm sure you're right in saying that the "anti's" will seize on this as an example of why their cause should be advanced. The chips will fall where they do.