Discussion for article #225900
In Houston, it’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity.
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It’s amazing how many things make gun owners fearful for their lives.
There doesn’t appear to be an equivalent number of non gun owners fearful of so many things.
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Here is the problem. Gun owners who own a gun for self-protection tend to be Right Wing Authoritarians.RWAs feel that the world is a dangerous and scary place.
Unrestricted gun ownership and stand your ground laws means they are going to plug a lot of people just to be safe.
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South Gessner ia a 4-lane thoroughfare with median.
15 minutes from my house.
Not where I’d feel comfortable being on foot at 2am.
But unless there’s some untold aspect?
There’s nothing that will protect the shooter here.
This isn’t FL. There is no SYG law.
There’s a ‘Castle Doctrine’-- being able to defend yourself in your home-- but this is outdoors, in plain sight.
And the husband had every right to hurry to check his wife’s well-being-- fight or no fight.
This Bubba is not going to get a free ride.
jw1
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This incident will test just how far the 2nd amendment and the castle doctrine will stretch. See a neighbor fighting and when they run across your property or down the road in front of your castle, let em have it. case closed. I really don’t think the fear for my life trick will work out on this one. What did he do, tell him to mind his own business or hollered, call 911. But then again, this is texass. He might get the saved the community award from a concerned angry husband.
New program available.
Want a cheap simple less ciaos divorce from the significant other?
Get her drunk and tell her she is fat, when the temper begins to flair and the horns start to grow, drop a butcher knife on the table and ask her why she looks and sounds like a barking dog. Exit your home and run down the street laughing at her. She will surly be chasing you with butcher knife in hand screaming a you. Guaranteed, if you are in texass, somebody will blow her away. Divorce settled.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
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The Chronicle has a few more details. The car crashed into the man’s house, man was helping the wife and the husband came running up onto the yard
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when you are a gun owner, you’re constantly subconsciously looking for situations that validate your fervent belief that you need a gun to keep you safe. The result is that every odd or mildly threatening or angry interaction with a stranger gets forced into the template of a life or death situation. A cell phone in someone’s hand becomes a gun, a girl banging on your door asking for help becomes a mindless killing machine and kids playing their radio too loud become a carload of shotgun brandishing “thugs.”
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Stand your ground!
Yeah, Texas does have a stand your ground law 
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Now, which one was the Bad Guy with the gun?
Sure this was a tragedy but does anyone else wonder if the theme of the Benny Hill Show was playing in the background?
Leaders in the Ranking of States on TPM and Raw Story with the most Careless Firearm
incidents
Texas - 12
Pennsylvania/Florida (tied) - 10
South Carolina - 7
Indiana - 6
Georgia/Ohio (tied) - 5
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What if both people are good/bad?
If the first good/bad guy didn’t have access to a gun, he would have had to have resorted to killing the second good/bad guy with a swimming pool.
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Panda, that both good and bad argument is a pretty effective argument in favor of gun control.
Now that is just sad. (And I’m still laughing.)
So we were running and looked like we had something in our hand, but nobody is saying now that we actually had a gun. We are dead. Were we, by any chance, black?
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That part of Houston is known as “Little Hong Kong”
See, I was right.