Homeowner, Suspect Both Hurt after Burglary

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

DALLAS - A Bristol homeowner was hurt Sunday after he rolled up on a burglary in progress. But he was able to shoot and stop one suspect before he got away.

According to the Ellis County Sheriff's Office, the homeowner and his family returned home at around 11:30 a.m. They noticed two men about the take off in an SUV with some of their belongings.

The suspects tried to drive off, slamming into the homeowner's truck and hurting both him and is young children. The man told deputies he them pulled out his small-caliber rifle and fired shots at the SUV.

One of the suspects was hit three times and is now in critical condition at a local hospital. The second suspect fled on foot.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/Homeowner_Suspect_Both_Hurt_a

[wuushew]

1. Not an appropriate action IMHO

If you kill or injure the driver of a motor vehicle does not that raise the chance of injury to bystanders?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

2. Seems the law disagrees.

[wuushew]

4. Yeah whatever... go Texas

I never gave my opinion of the LAW, I gave MY opinion of the irrationality of the decision making process's possible outcomes.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. Texas? Chill, we can disagree.

I think shooting at a vehicle that was ramming yours is reasonable, that's all.

David

[Skittles]

8. violence gets Medic Dave's rocks off

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

14. Come now do we have to resort to such childishness.

[Skittles]

15. yes

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

16. Okay, I hope you have a wonderful day.

[Skittles]

17. you too; try not to kill anyone

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

18. That may be hard to do, I'm going golfing, I say fore a lot.

[Skittles]

19. LOL

wanna hear a gun story?

When I was 14 I stuck a gun in a violence-prone relative's face - his response (frozen in his tracks): WHERE DID YOU GET THAT? My response: NOT YOUR BIGGEST CONCERN RIGHT NOW, IS IT? Yeah, it modified his behavior for a while.

But my dad, who kept a gun for protection, shot himself with it - and lived for six days.

The gun issue should not be extreme-PRO OR extreme-ANTI but something MORE FUCKING REASONABLE.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

20. Sorry to hear that.

Reasonable would be fine with me.

David

[guruoo]

7. So, you'd just wait with your injured family in the car to see what they did next? n/t

[wuushew]

10. IF this guy shot directly at the truck aimed at his car then it is justified

This news piece has almost no info, but that looks like a the bullet entered from the front and it also looks like this guy lives in a low population density area.

I still have the bad taste of Joe Horn in my mouth and you can understand why I would fear that a fleeing vehicle being shot at arguably is a higher threat to public safety.

[guruoo]

12. Yes, Horn's case was an entirely different matter.

The 911 call proved without a shadow of doubt that Horn was not in imminent danger
when he made the decision to kill.
But in the OP's example, however, with my family in the car, I wouldn't have waited to
find out if they were armed or not. I would have quickly checked my background, and then
taken them out immediately, driver first.

[Dappleganger]

3. Using the SUV to ram the homeowner's family

is assault with a deadly weapon. If they just drove off w/out ramming anyone then there would have been no reason to fear for their lives. But if indeed the burglars did use the SUV to ram the homeowner's car first then legally he probably has every right to use a gun.

[guruoo]

6. Too bad he missed the other one. n/t

[Ex Lurker]

9. sounds like he provoked them by trying to block their vehicle

leading to the ramming. He could have just let them drive off and called the police. But obviously his "things" were more important. Now someone (innocent until proven guilty) fights for his life in the hospital.

[guruoo]

11. ROTFLAMO!

[Starry Messenger]

13. Oops. n/t