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Under Texas law, people may use deadly force to protect their own property or to stop arson, burglary, robbery, theft or criminal mischief at night. Now I'll pose a question. Would YOU do the same thing to defend YOUR home. I see no "moral" difference in defending your neighbor's family,s ,close friend's home etc....If the "Castle Law" were expanded to defend other people's property I imagine thugs would think twice before breaking into a person's home and robbing them of there hard earned belongings etc.... Would kinda make "neighborhood Watch" have some real teeth.I know I'd think long and hard before I broke into a house.
I don't know all of the details, I did hear a recorded phone call.

Did he stand trail?

If he did and his peers found it justified, then so be it.

Years ago I had a burglar or peeping tom looking into my window and trying to get it open without making a lot of noise. I slowly stuck a 12 gauge through the curtains. It took him about 10 seconds to figure out what it was, and when he did, it scared him so bad he almost fainted. His eyes opened wide, his jaw dropped while he stumbled backward. He unassed the area like he'd seen a ghost. I never saw him again.
I don't know the whole story but I will say that I do not own guns as I had a friend murdered by her drunken husband when we were 19 and cannot stand to be around them much. And I am neither backwoods nor ignorant but if you break the law, thus infringing upon my rights, then you have forfeited yours...

When I was younger, I might have taken a higher road but now, as Danny Glover says in Lethal Weapon, "I'm too old for this s***".
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His peers were obviously complete trash like him


And you know this how?


Maybe he lives across the street?


I suspect if it would have been his house and someone would have been raped or murdered like a wife, mother or daughter he may have a different take.
Jerry, Mr. Horn didn't know if anyone was inside or what they were doing other than breaking into somone's house.

Using hindsight, it is always 20/20.

I don't blame Mr. Horn, and neither did the law.

The bottom line is that if people chose to break the law and put themselves into a dangerous situation while committing that crime, they have accepted personal responsibility and have chosen to accept the consequences of their actions.
[Police initially identified the dead men in Horn's yard as 38-year-old Miguel Antonio DeJesus and Diego Ortiz, 30, both of Houston of Afro Latino descent. However, DeJesus was actually an alias of Hernando Riascos Torres, 38.[3] They were carrying a sack with more than $2,000 cash and jewelry taken from the home. Both were convicted criminals from Colombia who had entered the country illegally, and were members of an organized burglary ring in Houston.[1] Police found a Puerto Rican identification card on Ortiz while Torres had three identification cards from Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, and had been previously sent to prison for dealing cocaine and was deported in 1999.[6]]
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sounds to me like a wee bit more than simple "petty theft" these fine young men were involved
try again mungo
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Originally posted by The Mungo Jerry:
Joe Horn showed NO restraint it is EASY to fly off like a fool his actions show him to be a COWARD it is EASY to kill for no GOOD reason like this horses ass did and his defenders are cowards too for condoning MURDER,i just pray none of your children ever make a mstake such as PETTY theft and some dumb COWARD plays God with them
Jerry do not ever mention my children in this forum ever again.You can say whatever you want to me but leave my children out of it.If your looking to get a rise out of me you did.

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