Well Here Is One Thief That Wont Be Stealing Again

[youngmafbog]

Justice Texas style.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12346067/Stolen-car-owner-tracks-vehicle-Texas-shopping-center-lot-shoots-dead-one-alleged-thieves-wounds-holding-gunpoint-waiting-cops-arrive.html

[Untitled]

do we actually for sure that the other woman who was shot was involved in the robbery? was she also trying to shoot at him or was she just unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time?

[retrocop]

//in my opinion that is rather stupid thing to do. i have no love for the police but if your car is stolen and you are able to track its location then that is the kind of situation they exist for//

That is pretty much what the Texas Sheriff said. He defended the right for self defence in their law but added the police would rather they had been called first when he tracked his car to the mall parking lot

[douglas9401]

Perhaps disarming miscreants with sharp wit and reason is the way to go.

[retrocop]

Untitled
It says in the link that the woman was an alleged accomplice of the other thief.

[naomi24]

According to the report the police had been called. //The owner of the stolen car had ordered the driver and his female companion out of the vehicle - and sat them down by the tire at gunpoint while they waited for police.//

[Peter Pedant]

no one wd be dead if only the cops had guns
The self defence works ( not because he stole a car) but the fella shot first, and the Texan filled him fulla lead
as the law allows us to do here - kill in self defence

apin for political reasons as Trump wd say
gun happy america, texas as a place apart etc

[royfromaus]

douglas9401
Perhaps disarming miscreants with sharp wit and reason is the way to go.
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100% but unfortunately we're not all equipped with that god given talent.

[Untitled]

"It says in the link that the woman was an alleged accomplice of the other thief."

yeah but... "alleged" on what grounds? cause she was sitting in the car with him when the owner decided to play hero? did she attack him as well as the other guy or was she just sitting there?

[douglas9401]

I you fly with the crows...

[douglas9401]

If

[Untitled]

then... get shot? lol

[andy-hughes]

Leaving aside whether people think the thief got what he deserved - the worrying aspect of this, is that a citizen took the law into his own hands, and in doing so, shot someone deaf, and it appears that not only will he face no legal sanction, he will probably become a hero for vigilantes everywhere, including on here, and become a poster boy for the NRA morons as well.

[andy-hughes]

Deaf??? DEAD you stupid machine!!!

[naomi24]

//a citizen took the law into his own hands, and in doing so, shot someone deaf, and it appears that not only will he face no legal sanction, //

The thief pulled a gun on him. What was he to do? Let the man shoot him?

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - As I have pointed out previously, my issue is not with the man defending himself, it's with the fact that he created the fatal and wounding scenario himself with his vigilante actions.

[royfromaus]

The thief didn't create the incident by stealing the car and then pulling a gun ...got it.

[andy-hughes]

Roy - Stealing the car was criminal, but that's what the police are for.

In this country, the police would have arrested the car thief, and no-one would be wounded, or dead.

Hinting that the thief got what he deserved does not make it right.

Nor does the death of a woman whose only crime appears to be making lousy choices about the company she keeps.

[andy-hughes]

Amendment - Leaving a woman injured, rather than dead.

[naomi24]

I don't know if anyone said the thief got what he deserved - I certainly didn't - but if he hadn't pulled a gun on his victim, he'd have been marched off by the police in the usual manner. He was the author of his own misfortune.

[retrocop]

The woman was not killed. This was not the UK it was the states. The man who died would just as likely shot the police officer. Its a matter of who gets to the felon first. Their country and their constitution. No handwringing and wailing from the sidelines will change their right to self defence