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"HeyBub" wrote in
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Smitty Two wrote:

You really do hate everyone, don't you Steve? Or have I just missed
all your posts where you advocate diplomacy and citizenship? In the
United States of America, your rights *end* where the other guy's
nose begins. Somehow you seem to forget that that concept applies to
BOTH parties. That principle is one of key foundations of
civilization.


Ah, no. The other guy's rights end where my property begins (at least
some of them):

Texas Penal Code 9.42 DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY

A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect
land or tangible, movable property:
(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...




and a knock on the door and a verbal complaint is NOT any of those
reasons,even at 3AM.

Use of or just a threat to use deadly force is not warranted nor justified
in this case.

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