Irrespective of whether his state allows this type of behavior, Mr Horn should have listened to the first things the dispatcher told him:
A) Stay inside his house.
B) "Ain't no property worth shooting somebody over."
This was a needless violent encounter..... never minding the legalisms, what do your arts teach you about those?
The shootees were even dumber. It appears at the actual moment of demise they were coming at Horn on his land. I think it is called natural selection.
While I think this is a good idea in general. I have experience otherwise. As long as they think they can drive by and knock your mail box over and get away with it they will. (* Cemented a poll into the ground and then build a wood frame around it so guy totaled car when he drunk hit it like he did every Saturday night. Side note before laws about drinking were tough so he got ride home and given ticket for damage to property only. Other than cut he was ok. But our family thought 25 polls and mail boxes were enough. *) The fact that people think they can intimidate others and get away with it bully them into staying in their home in fear. One Neighbor threatened to shoot me if he caught me outside on our property. So, I placed messages in his gas gap, and in his door of his car that he never locked and under his hood and indie his door, and other places. He came apologized and asked me to stop as his wife could not longer sleep in the house, for fear that she did not know if I had been there. I used his fear tactics back and it stopped. I have had neighbors who would call and comnplaign to management about noise. So I did the same I also compalined about the staff who lived in the place and I complained and when they told me to call the police I did. When the police told me the management had to call and not me, I recorded and played for the management. I explained that the letter of my lease was not be up held by them, and they I could leave and take their actions as forcible eviction.
I know that some will say in none of these cases did I shoot someone. But in none of these cases did I admit to having a weapon or not. It does not matter. What matters is the state of mind of the person. The supreme court ruled for sexual harassment that is is not the intent but the impact of the actions. This can and is used for other cases as well. Can one show they were in fear of their life. How does one believe that? If they are in my yard and been there before to the point I have called 911 and still on line with them, what will happen next time? Will I have the chance to call 911? Will 911 respond in time or will they sit on the call (* As they ahve with me before *) and not dispatch an officer? Fear is agreat thing and once it is there, it enters into the mind and grows. It continues to grow until it is an all consuming thing. Some get angry others have the flight response either physically or mentally.
So I respect the law and I respect that people want others to behave well and act civilized, but it does not stop those who choose to act outside of acceptable behaviour and break the laws. It does not stop those who choose to abuse a system and know the laws and not take a weapon into the house but first visit the kitchen and take the knives and places one in each room where he knows where it is. This does two things one confirms the house is empty and also places weapons where he can reach them. But if caught by the police he did not take a weapon into the premise so no intent was there for him and he used a weapon of opportunity for self defense. EXCUSE ME!?! He can claim self defense while breaking into someone else's house? YEP! And so knowing this limits his exposure and increases his odds of being successful in some manner.
But, if the person who wants to break into my house knows, I have weapons all through the house where I know they are and I know how to use them and am willing to use them, then they will look for other easier places to get their stuff. For now they have fear or respect for what could happen to them.
Now that being said, I did walk out of my own house when the ex's BF showed up with pipes to "KILL" me as he stated on the phone to me jsut minutes before. I called 911, and they did not reply. I called again when he showed up, and they told me not to open the house, but I could not stop her from opening the house to him. So, I went out the back. Why? Not because I was defending anything but myself there. I was not worried about property other than myself and not giving her satisfaction of seeing me go to jail over beating up her boyfriend. (* Note: We were still married, I filed as she had the boyfriend and she would not move out. *) But if the guy would have followed me in the back yard and side yard, (* I staid close enough so the cordless phone would still work *) I would have defended myself, but at that point I would still be spending the night in jail and him in the hospital but I could try to show he chased me down. So yes there are stages and guns may not be the first choice, but once fear is in the heart and the mind it has a way of making small things seem really big. That is why I will not comment on the shooting other than to say I can see a possible reason for it. I did not say it was the right reason, but I can put myself in "his" shoes and see how that could happen.
No disrespect meant to the quoted post. It was just quoted as the thought starter. No disrespect to those who have different views, as the great thing about this country is you can have a different view and that is ok. Just please acknowledge that it is ok for me to have one different from you. (* You being the general second person here. *)
Peace
