That seems preposterous to me (in a good way). My neighborhood sees about a murder a month.
I remember reading that the murder rate in Austin is around 20/year.
I remember reading the murder rate in Houston is around 400/year.
Just for some perspective.
LOL Blaze that never happened!
well all I know is I dont care about all the legal crap
I literaly have a hole pre-dug on my acreage for any “unwelcome pests”
not trying to seem like a bad ass or anything
EDIT: just to clarify this is any pests that are too large to go in my 55 gallon oil drum burner barrell.
snakes go and gophers that eat my phone and power lines,
I have had my great dane attacked one morning already by hungry coyotes,they messed her up good
80+ staples and 3000 dollars later she is better but still
I mean Anything not welcomed
and pusharder phoenix being a dry heat is a bunch of BULLSHIT
I was born and raised here heat is heat when its 120 with 10% humidity its still horrible.
you just wont die as sweaty.
We had a similar (non-deadly) story this week up here in the woods:
[i]VIENNA â¿¿ When the scrap metal thieves came back, Joseph Lord was waiting for them with some metal of his own.
Buckshot.
The thieves took off running after seeing Lord return to his Kimball Pond Road machine shop just before noon today.
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[quote]Makavali wrote:
Blaze_108 wrote:
here’s a tricky gun case that will make you laugh.
Urban legend. Never happened.[/quote]
of course it did. It was my mothers brothers cousins uncles nephews neighbor.
[quote]Otep wrote:
I remember reading that the murder rate in Austin is around 20/year.
I remember reading the murder rate in Houston is around 400/year.
Just for some perspective.[/quote]
Well considering I just moved to the NE corner of Houston(Humble) not to long ago that is oh so comforting but then again I use to live all of 10 miles east of Gary Indiana.
[quote]Ben Jones wrote:
Dave_ wrote:
Sadly the law in the UK is very different. We are supposedly allowed to use “reasonable force” if someone tresspasses on our property, but it’s somewhat of a grey area. That means that if you kick the shit out of someone, you could quite possibly end up with a longer sentence than the intruder.
Regardless, if someone broke into my house in the middle of the night while my (future) wife and kids were in bed - they wouldn’t be leaving in the traditional way.
Police officers have said that if you kill a thief or mugger in the heat of the moment, or even after chasing someone down in the street, they won’t prosecute.
I don’t really think the guy should be arrested, but it does seem a little extreme to kill a person just for breaking in to your house.
Maybe just shoot his knees caps?[/quote]
That’s an incredibly stupid idea, you do not use deadly force if it isn’t a deadly situation. Shooting in a high stress situation is difficult, and it is almost impossible to hit such a small target.
And by shooting to wound, you are basically admitting that your life was not being threatened at the time. this opens you to criminal and civil prosecution.
Repeat after me, " I WAS IN FEAR FOR MY LIFE". THIS MEANS YOU SHOOT TO STOP. Of course, most of the stopping areas are vital areas, but oh well. Also, pistol wounds run about 25% fatal and on average 20% of shots hit during gun fights.
[quote]Steve8867 wrote:
How many of you are familiar with Castledoctrin?
[/quote]
“Castle doctrine”?
if someone breaks into my house I’d be up in a heart beat hiding behind the wall in the bed room waiting for them to walk in since i have no weapons id crouch and then hope for one intruder and break the fuckers neck.
Could I get in trouble for that because I dont have a gun?
[quote]Manofsteel319 wrote:
if someone breaks into my house I’d be up in a heart beat hiding behind the wall in the bed room waiting for them to walk in since i have no weapons id crouch and then hope for one intruder and break the fuckers neck.
Could I get in trouble for that because I dont have a gun?[/quote]
ahhh the ninja style of home defense 
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Some woman tore my car door open a couple months ago. [/quote]
Did you get any strength training advice from her?
Earlier this spring I heard a story about the recent proliferation of laws protecting people who defend themselves in these kind of situations. One of the arguments was that these laws are unnecessary because the homeowners who shoot trespassers are rarely prosecuted.
I think this is one of those things that folks go to one extreme or the other over, and the truth is really in the middle. There’s no reason to go guns ablazin’ at every bump in the night, but we shouldn’t discourage people from legitimately protecting themselves either.
[quote]conorh wrote:
One of the arguments was that these laws are unnecessary because the homeowners who shoot trespassers are rarely prosecuted.[/quote]
Rarely prosecuted means that by protecting themselves they broke a law, and it’s up to the discretion of the prosecutor to decide whether to prosecute. I’d rather live in a place where killing someone else in self defense is not even a crime.
When I was in college in Mission Hill, Boston, a crack head climbed the fire escape and came into the window of my bathroom. My sister and I were watching TV in the other room and heard the shower curtain moving and some heavy breathing in the bathroom.
Scariest shit I have ever experienced.
I had mace (which was illegal in Mass, I had bought it in NH) Unfortunately, the guy walked out of the bathroom and my sister was between me and him, so the mace would have been useless, and just hit her. I pointed it at him anyway. He picked up the police lock (a 4 foot steel rod ironically used to keep people from breaking into your house) and swung it in the direction of my sister’s head saying “like hell you’ll use it”. I dropped it.
Thank god he was so messed up he just asked where our money was, when we told him we had none he unlocked the front door and walked out.
I have since bought a gun and learned how to use it. If that happened today, that guy would be dead.
first shot into the body, the next into the roof. “but officer, i fired a warning shot!” make sure you yell alot, anything, after shooting (this shoudlnt be so hard). Then i dont care how you feel about being stoic. Then let it all out and be as hysterical and distraught as you want while you call the police.
the only thing you have to remember is the shot in the roof. The rest should come naturally to everyone.
[quote]Beatnik wrote:
first shot into the body, the next into the roof. “but officer, i fired a warning shot!” make sure you yell alot, anything, after shooting (this shoudlnt be so hard). Then i dont care how you feel about being stoic. Then let it all out and be as hysterical and distraught as you want while you call the police.
the only thing you have to remember is the shot in the roof. The rest should come naturally to everyone.[/quote]
God Bless Texas. Here, the warning shot would be center mass of the intruder, and the next shot would be to his head.
Rick Perry may be the most worthless governor we have ever had, but at least he understood the right of the individual to protect their property.
Extreme outliers aside, in almost any state in America you can shoot and kill an intruder who has broken into your house (the actual structure). In Texas you can apparently shoot and kill someone who is on your property. Not sure how I feel about that, though.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
… the warning shot would be center mass of the intruder, and the next shot would be to his head.
[/quote]
These words make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
They also happen to be the rule in my household.