Reply #42: There is nothing capricious about defending oneself from a home-invasion [View All]

[S_B_Jackson]

the criminal made their decision to attempt to take by force that which was not theirs and placed the lives of the occupants of that home at grave risk. A risk recognized by the state of Texas as so apparent that it was deemed important enough to make clear that as a matter of law that the risk was valid and actionable.

My wife has been subjected to such an attack prior to our we began to date, and it was ONLY by the intervention of her roommate who returned home, heard the assault taking place in the other bedroom and retrieved the shotgun that she kept in her own room for just such an possiblity that she was not raped, beaten further, and quite possibly killed.

Such occurances are the reality and it is hard to believe that there remain persons such as yourself who continue to believe that a person does not have the right to defend themselves.