Monday morning feel good story
This morning’s feel good story comes from Texas;
Coryell County deputies and a Department of Public Safety trooper found a man’s body in a field early Saturday morning, several hours after a rural homeowner reported that he had fired several shots at what evidently was a would-be burglar.
Deputies responded at around 1:50 a.m. Saturday to a home at 810 County Road 176 in Coryell County in response to a report of a prowler.
The homeowner, who was not identified, told deputies that the residents heard a prowler outside the home and that they fired several rounds at a person they saw leaving the residence, the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release Saturday afternoon.
One vehicle at the home appeared to have been broken into, authorities said.
Texas is marginally safer this morning. Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Now I fear for the homeowner.
What is Texas law concerning “Castle Doctrine”?
Do you have to fear for your life before you shoot?
Does the perp have to break into your home before you can shoot?
Not that I personally give a wrinkle on a dead rat’s ass about the perp, but I’m concerned that some overzealous prosecutor will go after the homeowner.
And the world is a more peaceful place, beginning now.
A lot depends on the County one lives in. A co-worker was a participant in one of your feel good stories a while back, and he went through an ordeal, becaise there were some marginally questionable circumstances. Our county (juries) has a history of siding with the homeowner if there are not obvious irregularities. He was no-billed, but is still being sued by the perps parents. He is fortunate to have a lawyer in the family, and the juries here would want to know why the perp was in someone’s house uninvited. Not out of the woods, but he is seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
You sound like you are from Nu Yuck?
I’m concerned that Texas is gradually becoming gun-shy.
Texas has relatively restrictive gun laws compared to other states. Concealed carry was not authorized until mid nineties, open carry (pistol) is not authorised for non-law enforcement, our CCW is one of the more difficult to obtain. We have the reputation, but the reality does not match it.
When I was stationed at Fort Hood, I was told that Texas gun laws didn’t use to be so restrictive.
But, everything changed (for the worse) because of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy being assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Texas was stuck with that stigma until the massacre at the Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, which motivated one of the survivors to enter politics and single handedly turn Texas gun laws around.