A good story about protecting yourself and your property with RKBA. The best part is that the law is on his side.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/30/flo ... index.html
Law protects SUV owner who shot, killed woman
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Re: Law protects SUV owner who shot, killed woman
We had a similar thing here in Dallas: an old guy who owned a wrecking yard and repair shop kept getting robbed. He lives in the same building his business is in. He shot and killed a thief and then, 3 weeks later, shot and killed another thief. Both shootings were with shotguns. The old guy had made many many calls to the police about robberies taking place (I understand that he called police more than 40 times) and nothing helped. Finally, he decided to defend his own property.
After the second shooting, A local TV reporter interviewed the 70 year old man. In the interviews, it seemed as if the old guy liked the reporter. However, at one point she begin to badger him by saying: "Are you a trigger happy kind of person? Is that what what you wanted to do? Shoot to kill?"
This reporter has won national awards for her journalism. So she is not just any reporter. However, her treatment of the old man on TV caused him to break down and cry, and many in the surrounding area were incensed. A great deal of pressure was brought to bear on the TV station and they suspended the reporter. Eventually, the TV station fired the reporter.
Now the reporter is suing the TV station, claiming that her firing was unfairly based on her race. (She is Hispanic.) Heaven knows, there's more than enough discrimination against Hispanics and African Americans around here, but what the reporter did was clearly beyond the pale of journalism. Her anti-gun attitudes were both clear and the reason for the public's outrage and her subsequent firing.
It is unfortunate that these thieves died, but when they engage in their unlawful behavior, there is no reason for the victims of their crime to believe that thievery is all that they have on their mind. There is no telling what their ultimate intentions might be or what ideas they might get in the course of their robbery. At any rate, I do not think it fair to expect the victim to take the risk of what might happen in these cases.
Some say that the death penalty is no deterrent to crime. Folks on either side of this issue quote mountains of statistics to support their opposing opinions. However, I am sure that local thieves have gotten a clear signal from Mr. Walton's dispatching a pair of them to their rewards in a three week time span.
After the second shooting, A local TV reporter interviewed the 70 year old man. In the interviews, it seemed as if the old guy liked the reporter. However, at one point she begin to badger him by saying: "Are you a trigger happy kind of person? Is that what what you wanted to do? Shoot to kill?"
This reporter has won national awards for her journalism. So she is not just any reporter. However, her treatment of the old man on TV caused him to break down and cry, and many in the surrounding area were incensed. A great deal of pressure was brought to bear on the TV station and they suspended the reporter. Eventually, the TV station fired the reporter.
Now the reporter is suing the TV station, claiming that her firing was unfairly based on her race. (She is Hispanic.) Heaven knows, there's more than enough discrimination against Hispanics and African Americans around here, but what the reporter did was clearly beyond the pale of journalism. Her anti-gun attitudes were both clear and the reason for the public's outrage and her subsequent firing.
It is unfortunate that these thieves died, but when they engage in their unlawful behavior, there is no reason for the victims of their crime to believe that thievery is all that they have on their mind. There is no telling what their ultimate intentions might be or what ideas they might get in the course of their robbery. At any rate, I do not think it fair to expect the victim to take the risk of what might happen in these cases.
Some say that the death penalty is no deterrent to crime. Folks on either side of this issue quote mountains of statistics to support their opposing opinions. However, I am sure that local thieves have gotten a clear signal from Mr. Walton's dispatching a pair of them to their rewards in a three week time span.