Texas penal code 9.42 Deadly force to protect property
[COLOR=#3C3C3C]A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:
[COLOR=#3C3C3C](1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and
[COLOR=#3C3C3C](2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary: (A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and
[COLOR=#3C3C3C](3) he reasonably believes that: (A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
She surely seems familiar to me for some reason, looks more like a victim of a domestic.
Anyway, simple....don't take what doesn't belong to you.
Last edited by skypilot; April 26th, 2016 at 01:03 PM.
In Canada... it would be 2 to 3 years of court trials dragged out by appeals afterward, probably a couple years sentence, ban from owning firearms and loss of job and media attacks making the criminal out to be the victim.... and probably a lawsuit by the relatives of the dead criminal.
US.... criminal is immediately accountable for his actions and victim upon being recognized as a victim free to go.
Sad state of affairs Canadian laws have gotten to!
I think it is the example of just how big of a coward a criminal is that when three or four guys will walk up to a bus shelter and make rude comments and harass a woman, but scatter like roaches when a single guy walks out of the dark and looks at them.
You "KNOW" that if that had been a guy standing there with a backpack, the coward would have just walked away.
Take the warning labels off. Darwin will solve the problem.