Man Cleared for Killing Neighbor's Burglars in Texas. Damn Right!

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Again, criminals should know the risks involved when they go on a job.

These men weren't standing still. This wasn't an execution.

The fact that they were shot in the back looks nice as an anti-killing talking point, but these men started the felony, the civilian simply ended it.

Now, know this, if you are a prisoner, and you run away, the police can shoot you, in the back of the head if they do it while running.

These men weren't standing still, they bolted.

In the heat of the real moment, you can't aim when you shoot. This isn't the movies, you can't slow down time. You have a split second to react. If this was manslaughter(you can't "murder" criminals during the act of a felony), then shooting at them at all would be attempted manslaughter. You can't have it both ways.

The bad guys were about to get away. A civilian with a gun intervened with their escape. They darted. Due to this dart, he felt for a moment that his life was in danger. He shot them. Where the actual entry wounds are wouldn't make a difference in this case.

Is it morally right? Only the guy can say if he was really scared for his life. If he was, he did the right thing. If he wasn't, he probably just felt they deserved to die. We can't know what was in his head. However, with the way it went down, I can see it.

First thing I learned about guns. You never point a gun at anyone unless you're going to shoot them.

Here is my ideology. If people couldn't get shot robbing homes, then more people would do it.

If we go around putting people in jail for shooting them, then we screw up the whole risk/reward system. Not to say that these people died for an ideology, but if their deaths serve to keep other people from robbing homes, at least something good came out of it. Robbing homes is bad. You might get shot and killed during it, by the resident or the police, because the usual people who rob homes would also probably murder or rape the inhabitants if they were home.

Anyway, it cost these guys their lives. Do I care? No, lol. Call me evil. They're felons who belong in prison, in another country. I have a lot of other innocent people to mourn over in this world. What I do care about is making sure the guy who shot the criminals who were desperate, trying to escape, and possibly a danger to his life, is free.

He didn't cause this. They did.

Sure, he shouldn't have got involved, but you guys are trying to send the guy up for murder, just for being stupid, and making a mistake. Criminally negligant manslaughter possibly, but honestly, he's got my vote to go scott free, cause I don't think he did anything wrong.