Ha HA!! Booyah, indeed!

This must be very near the top of the Very Stupid Things To Do list: Threaten a mothers children with deadly force.

If you're not ready to pull the trigger, don't put the gun in your hands...

Good on them for having the fortitude to fight back. And good on the police in Ft. Worth for not charging them with a crime.

Mark,

Tha only way they would be charged with a crime under the common law is if the police believed that they did not have to shoot the burglers to protect themselves...or if the guns belonged to them and were not properly registered. The only way they would be convicted is if the prosecution could prove that a they did not act in self-defense.

Do you know, every case that I have come across in the gun forums where someone was supposedly charged with shooting a burgler has turned out to be untrue? Either the case didn't happen in the U.S. even though they claimed it did (one case was a homeowner killing a burgler with a knife in Britian as the man was fleeing his house. I ask you...what does that have to do with self-defense gun laws in the U.S.?

Others were variously that they were charged with tampering with evidence, or owning the gun illegally, or not having it properly registered...not with killing in self-defense. Which is why I think guns-rights activists are insane. They are all charged up over an issue that does not exsist.

I have asked repeatedly on this blog if anyone can find even one case of someone being charged or convicted of killing a burgler in their home. Nobody has come forward with a single instance.

Calm down, dear. Put the coffee down. I'm agreeing with you...









Mostly... ;)

Mark,

You can have my coffe when you pry it from my cold. dead. hands.

And you probably will try.

Its Fair Trade coffee.

LOL! I feel the same way about my coffee. Don't worry, your coffee is safe.