Joe Horn, 61, shot the two men in November after he saw them crawling out the windows of a neighbor's house in the Houston suburb of Pasadena.
Horn called 911 and told the dispatcher he had a shotgun and was going to kill the men. The dispatcher pleaded with him not to go outside, but Horn confronted the men with a 12-gauge shotgun and shot both in the back.
"The message we're trying to send today is the criminal justice system works," Harris County District Attorney Kenneth Magidson said.
Horn's attorney, Tom Lambright, has said his client believed the two men had broken into his neighbor's home and that he shot them only when they came into his yard and threatened him.
They came into his yard and threatened him, but got shot in the back? I'd love to be on that jury if only to see the courtroom-staged recreation of how that's possible.
Things is different in Texas.
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Yer movin' ain't ya, MV? Your kinda state. Shoot 'em and ask questions later. Long live Libertarianism!
Yuck! Texas. This isn't surprising, really. They're still working under Judge Roy Bean's system of justice.
"I want you to bend the bullet."
So thats how they got shot in the back, eh? Ninja shooting!
I don't remember doing this, but my URL at TLC is this site. Hope that's cool with youse two.
I don't mind, if anyone follows you back here, we'll know who to blame! *smirk*
Yer movin' ain't ya, MV? Your kinda state. Shoot 'em and ask questions later. Long live Libertarianism!
Seldom right and wrong again. NO I don't believe in shotgunning people in the back unless I'm playing XBOX. That's not Libertarianism.
Clearly Texas doesn't support it either, otherwise this would never have gone to trial.
I don't wanna kill anybody unless it's me or them.
Unlike you LIBERALS who think that a guy who breaks into your house and cuts himself on the broken glass should be able to SUE you and WIN. AND he should have free access to SOCIALIZED health care so he can be patched up.
(One massive oversimplification deserves another!)
Unlike you LIBERALS who think that a guy who breaks into your house and cuts himself on the broken glass should be able to SUE you and WIN.
Huh uh! We LIBERALS know that the guy can't sue ya if he doesn't leave the house...alive!
BTW, did you see the guy what did the shooting? He looks like a deranged Hummel figurine.
LOL!!!!
Word, Coyote!!
Damn, that's hilarious.
Ah, you guys would fix him a warm cup of cocoa and ponder how it's possible, in the WEALTHIEST NATION ON EARTH, that this poor downtrodden, disenfranchised individual would be forced by SOCIETY to resort to a life of crime.
"We need better teachers in our public schools!"
Yeah, the guy looks a little, well, spooky.
BTW: Here's the true Libertarian solution to this issue. Legalize all drugs because they were probably breaking into the neighbor's house for shit they could pawn to buy smack.
Legalize the drugs, no more robberies.
Legalize the drugs, yeah. But don't count on robberies going down. The kids'll still have to pay fer their fix.
Okay, so crime is reduced to the level where kids knock over old ladies for cigarette money.
Or, we could keep doing it like we're doing it. International drug lords, cartels, gangs, rival gangs, organized crime, etc.
And Eve Carson from UNC. Shot in the face and chest with a shotgun, then executed with a pistol shot to the head. They needed her ATM card. For cigarettes?
I'd call her a victim of the War on Drugs. Not "collateral damage" either.
So by legalizing all drugs all the losers who get themselves hooked up on them would somehow magically (courtesy of the magical drug money sky pony one supposes?) find themselves with all the money they need to buy them and wouldn't have to break into people's homes?
Who knew the path to economic nirvana was blanket drug legalization!
Oh, fuck. Look what the Jeff dragged in. It's snark.
Yeah, I'm saying we don't have people breaking into homes and knocking over old ladies for Zoloft money. Make the harder drugs available by prescription and make weed legal like cigarettes. Tax the hell out of it. #1 cash crop for the farmers. Economy booms, employment booms, etc.
Most of this shit was legal as recently as the late 70's early 80's.
Now we're locking up a generation of non-violent law breakers (and need I remind the liberals of the racial bias when it comes to drug arrests?)
Gangs, the mafia, the "black market", organized crime -- this is all about the buying and selling of drugs. Maybe blanket legalization won't stop every last purse snatcher, but it's hard to believe any of the criminal organizations I listed would continue to exist without a profit margin.
Hey, I invited snark here, now be nice and fight like gentlemen! *ahem* You know, naked, in jello...
(and need I remind the liberals of the racial bias when it comes to drug arrests?)
Hang on, Reagan wasn't a liberal!
Who said anything about Reagan? No comprende.
BTW: When I refer to liberals, or "pinkos" or "socialists" or "bleeding-hearts", I am of course talking about you and Jeff.
As far as I'm concerned, Reagan was a puppet of George HW, who tried to have Reagan whacked in his first 90 days or whatever, but it didn't take.
I was thinking of the drug war starting under Reagan - that was the beginning of the end of the constitution right there!
Most of this shit was legal as recently as the late 70's early 80's.
And crime was virtually nonexistant!
And crime was virtually nonexistant!
Ah, the salad days...
Reagan didn't start the Drug War. The big drug companies were coming out with more and more new shit for mental illnesses that would've put them in competition with drugs like ecstasy, shrooms, and LSD.
Attack of the Lobbyists and suddenly we're stepping up drug busts and calling it a "war". Anyone could've been president that caved in to that one. 'Cept maybe Ron Paul. (Suck it.)
Oh, and we had crime in the 80's because cocaine was illegal. Didn't either of you ever watch Miami Vice? The 80's were all about coke.
Okay, fuck it. I'm starting a new thread.
Coke. Never understood that one. And I watched "Vice," but I was more interested in the 'splosions back then. The show was about issues? I thought it was about Don Johnson's keen fashion sense.
The only difference between Don Johnson and guys like DeNiro and Pacino and Nicholson is that Don doesn't get the good scripts.
And that's all I have to say about that.
That's a joke, right?
Janeane Garofalo said it once. I don't think she was kidding.
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