Paladin132

Another report that makes my blood boil. How about everyone stop second guessing? Instead of saying well if A happened then he was wrong and B he was justified, which I have seen in less than half the posts, people want to crucify an old man who very possibly is getting rather feeble in old age. Its dark, its late at night, prowlers are outside, and if they make it inside, its over for you and your wife more than likely. Why not announce? Two reasons, and I will admit the first is a knee jerk one: because he's not a cop, he doesn't have to. Reason two: because that "Cover" of the house will not necessarily stop a bullet. It may, it may not, but bullets do go through houses, and through the next one sometimes. With just some sheetrock, braces, insulation, and then something on the outside, perhaps the homeowner didn't feel it was safe to. I can sure understand not wanting to wait until someone was inside. In my apartment if they are inside then they are in one of my two rooms, should I let someone shoot / knife / beat me for a few feet inside the door or window before I am justified in defending myself? With the Castle Doctrine I think the law puts him in the justified catagory, but everyone is upset over the "Boy" getting shot, the Mom dieing in the car wreck, and stuff that has no bearing on the incident under investigation.

I'm sorry about ranting, but I just get so sick of people rushing to judgement on someone that was trying to defend themselves. Was this in a residential neighborhood or more rual texas? That will also matter, but I don't think we know, I may have missed it. Is this old man spry and able to fight off a teenager? Maybe, again its something we dont know. But what in the hell was a boy doing sneaking within a few feet of a window?

Not saying the guy was right or wrong, I'm saying we haven't seen alot of the ground, alot of the evidence, and even the jury is going to have a hard time seeing what happened. Its impossible to know what really happened with what we know, and I would ask all of you to remember if you thought that your life was in danger and were now in that situation, how great you would feel seeing people armchair quarterback your decision without the facts.

Sorry, didn't realize that this was such a bloody long post. My appologies.