Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

In what uncivilize place can a person shoot two people in the back without being tried? In Texas. A man name Joe Horn saw 2 people apparently robbing his neighbor, called 911 and told the operator that he was going out to shoot them. The operator repeatly told him not to go out there. Horn, citing a new law in Texas that allows a person who is being threatened to attack without first retreating, said he will shoot them because he has a right to protect himself. This is bunch of bull. If he stayed in the house the robbers wouldn't have attacked him. In fact even when he went out there they had no weapon to attack him. But as they ran away from him he shot them in the back. No civilize person would think this is self-defense. A Texas grand jury refused to indict him. Usually it does not take much to indict someone. Certainly it does not have to be beyond reasonable doubt as in convicting someone. So basically the grand jury does not even believe there is a possibility of a crime here. To me Horn is a criminal and a murderer. He was intentionally ignoring the advice of the 911 operator and he premeditated what he would do when he went outside of his house. This should have been first degree murder.

This was a racial case. On television all the protestors against Horn were black and all the supporters of Horn were white. There was at least one Confederate flag among the supporters. If people believe that people can shoot before being threatened, then all the gang killings can be called self-defense because the gang member can say that an approaching person maybe a gang member trying to kill him. So it would be justified to fire first. Does anyone believe that Horn would not be prosecuted if he was black or Latino?

I am beginning to believe that there is a cowboy culture still in Texas. Kill the Indians before they can attack you becomes kill anyone that may threaten you. Frontier justice prevails here. You can be the police, judge and jury as long as you have a gun. Combat violence with violence. Maybe that's why Texas produces a president who combats terrorism with force without strategy. Just like the Texas law does not make Texas safer, the cowboy mentality of our president does not make us safer.