Castle Doctrine - Now being tested

Blizzard_1708 · Post by **Blizzard_1708** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:52 am

Digi - this ones for you.

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/w ... e537c.html

Post by **sckego** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:48 am

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/w ... e537c.html

Fixed link

Blizzard_1708 · Post by **Blizzard_1708** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:03 am

bah, mine works perfectly fine!!

Post by **dufremle** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:19 pm

If I see someone standing outside my window at night, I'm shooting too.

Post by **dufremle** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:28 pm

I also doubt this will come under Castle Doctrine as Texas has a long standing 'defense to prosecution' statute if you shoot someone in your yard at night. I would be surprised if a Grand Jury indicted him.

Grinner · Post by **Grinner** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:37 pm

Just remember rule number one if you intend on shooting someone....
"Dead man tell no tale!!!"

rubber · Post by **rubber** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:40 pm

if you're standing in my front yard and see a little red dot on your chest, it's the last thing you will see. if you're ballsy enough to jump my fence, you will hear no barking and i won't hear any screaming.

vagrant · Post by **vagrant** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:27 am

Shoot first, ask questions later. Thats the ticket!

digi · Post by **digi** » Tue May 27, 2008 12:21 pm

It is.

I look at it this way: no one comes to my home unannounced. If you do, I better know you, and it better be something that couldn't wait the 5 seconds it takes to make a courtesy phone call to let me know that you are coming over.

Everyone has a cell phone in this day and age, so this shouldn't be a problem. With that said, if I receive a knock on my door at night, I _WILL_ answer it with a weapon in hand. If the person on the other side of that door shows any sign of threat, I _WILL_ do everything within my power to eliminate the threat. I won't care about the circumstances.

There are too many cases of home invasion, and too many shitheads on this earth to go unarmed. This doesn't mean I will shoot any stranger, but if they are a threat, I certainly will.

My rules of engagement are a little loose at my front door. Now, I do have a backyard. It has a semi-high steel fence. There is nothing back there but some tall weeds and some lawn chairs. If I find someone back there, I will automatically assume that it's a threat, and there won't be any buttsniffing about it. No one has any business being there. There isn't a gate. You didn't wander in from the street, you climbed the fence. You are either robbing me, or my neighbors, or running from someone (most likely, the cops.)

Sorry. Won't be a victim. I'm the person that aims to rob the robbers.

"Give me your wallet."

"No. Give me yours."