Texans love their trucks, but a truck isn’t worth throwing your life away for. That goes for both the thief and the owner. Better to give the police the location and let them deal with it. Goes without saying, I suppose.
I'm not sure what that's suppose to mean. That people in other US states (or even other countries) don't have a business or personal connection to their trucks? What about cars, SUVs, airplanes, boats, other vehicles, homes, and simply other personal belongings? Based on my experience, people love the expensive and useful products they've worked hard to obtain, and no one likes to feel violated by having these items broken into, vandalized, or stolen.
I was relating my comment to the situation at hand. I made no reference or reference implication about vehicle owners elsewhere. I would think that the lesson would be understood to apply universally.
Texans love their trucks, but a truck isn’t worth throwing your life away for. That goes for both the thief and the owner. Better to give the police the location and let them deal with it. Goes without saying, I suppose.
Yeah, the meek shall inherit the Earth, right? Be a scared little vole and hand over your keys, your wallet, your daughter if demanded, right? There's a reason some states have Castle Doctrines, Stand Your Ground Laws, and Concealed Carry Laws. "Oh please, Mr. Thug, don't hurt me"
As for the police? Gimme a break. They have bigger fish to fry than a stolen truck.
Bit of a difference between stand your ground and go hunt down the criminal like a vigilante.
Texans love their trucks, but a truck isn’t worth throwing your life away for. That goes for both the thief and the owner. Better to give the police the location and let them deal with it. Goes without saying, I suppose.
Yeah, the meek shall inherit the Earth, right? Be a scared little vole and hand over your keys, your wallet, your daughter if demanded, right? There's a reason some states have Castle Doctrines, Stand Your Ground Laws, and Concealed Carry Laws. "Oh please, Mr. Thug, don't hurt me"
As for the police? Gimme a break. They have bigger fish to fry than a stolen truck.
Texans love their trucks, but a truck isn’t worth throwing your life away for. That goes for both the thief and the owner. Better to give the police the location and let them deal with it. Goes without saying, I suppose.
Yeah, the meek shall inherit the Earth, right? Be a scared little vole and hand over your keys, your wallet, your daughter if demanded, right? There's a reason some states have Castle Doctrines, Stand Your Ground Laws, and Concealed Carry Laws. "Oh please, Mr. Thug, don't hurt me"
As for the police? Gimme a break. They have bigger fish to fry than a stolen truck.
You really are a Stooge.
His comment about the police having bigger fish to fry is both weird and shows that he doesn't understand the situation. So his "don't bother the police, take care of it yourself" position has now gone from a basic report of a stolen truck to a crime scene with considerably more police officers, forensic specialists, many other personnel, a much more drawn out and costly investigation that will now include the DA to determine if the killing was justified and very likely a civil case by the family of the deceased... and all for a truck—that according to the article—was part of the crime scene so it could be trashed with guts and brain pieces, and will at least certainly be hauled away as part of the investigation. Does he really want that truck back over an insurance payout?
Texans love their trucks, but a truck isn’t worth throwing your life away for. That goes for both the thief and the owner. Better to give the police the location and let them deal with it. Goes without saying, I suppose.
I see nothing wrong with this. The truck owner should be acquitted.
And that's the problem.
Welcome to America, where guns are a solution to a problem or a grievance.. Sad and needs to change.
You say that, but one day something will happen and you’ll regret not having taken up your second amendment rights. Hope that day never comes for you but the bell tolls for us all.
Texans love their trucks, but a truck isn’t worth throwing your life away for. That goes for both the thief and the owner. Better to give the police the location and let them deal with it. Goes without saying, I suppose.
Yeah, the meek shall inherit the Earth, right? Be a scared little vole and hand over your keys, your wallet, your daughter if demanded, right? There's a reason some states have Castle Doctrines, Stand Your Ground Laws, and Concealed Carry Laws. "Oh please, Mr. Thug, don't hurt me"
As for the police? Gimme a break. They have bigger fish to fry than a stolen truck.
No doubt. The police will be there for you after you're a victim. If you care about the safety of your family and yourself, exercise your 2A rights and don't depend on "first responders" - they're responding to a crime that's already happened.
I have never owned a gun i never will own a gun i do not allow guns in my house nothing good ever resulted from a gun.
I have some sympathy for the sentiment, but if it weren't for the gun Hitler might have got away.
What? Hitler committed suicide. He wasn't taken out by someone else's gun.
I'm just being facetious, no need to take it seriously.
Texans love their trucks, but a truck isn’t worth throwing your life away for. That goes for both the thief and the owner. Better to give the police the location and let them deal with it. Goes without saying, I suppose.
Yeah, the meek shall inherit the Earth, right? Be a scared little vole and hand over your keys, your wallet, your daughter if demanded, right? There's a reason some states have Castle Doctrines, Stand Your Ground Laws, and Concealed Carry Laws. "Oh please, Mr. Thug, don't hurt me"
As for the police? Gimme a break. They have bigger fish to fry than a stolen truck.
No doubt. The police will be there for you after you're a victim. If you care about the safety of your family and yourself, exercise your 2A rights and don't depend on "first responders" - they're responding to a crime that's already happened.
For some reason only people in the USA think they need something absurd as the 2nd amendment to ‘defend themselves’.
Guys like you are perpetuating the issue, the cancer that leads to daily masa shootings and a trigger happy police force.
Guns should be prohibited for any civilian, no exceptions. The government needs to initiate a buyback program. This is how Australia got rid of a similar issue. It took them a long time but it worked. The data on gun violence is there. You just decide to ignore it or reframe it to fit your personal believes. That egocentric, narcissistic behavior… it’s disgusting.
Really poor timing publishing this article, given the events that went down in Tennessee this week. Is AI anti-gun now too? I’m not saying what the truck owner was right, but the timing of this article being published couldn’t be any worse, given the anti-gun rhetoric being pushed down people’s throats again this week.
There’s a mass shooting happening every day, so that means the timing is always bad.
I’m more concerned about you saying it is “anti gun rhetoric being pushed down people’s throats” while daily mass shooting are happening. Are you trolling or a complete idiot? I assume the first.
I see nothing wrong with this. The truck owner should be acquitted.
And that's the problem.
Welcome to America, where guns are a solution to a problem or a grievance.. Sad and needs to change.
You say that, but one day something will happen and you’ll regret not having taken up your second amendment rights. Hope that day never comes for you but the bell tolls for us all.
This is the twisted version of townspeople's shortsightedness at the end of "It's a Wonderful Life".
You know, you can't be both a fatalist AND insist on some right to hold your own destiny in your hands.
Texans love their trucks, but a truck isn’t worth throwing your life away for. That goes for both the thief and the owner. Better to give the police the location and let them deal with it. Goes without saying, I suppose.
Yeah, the meek shall inherit the Earth, right? Be a scared little vole and hand over your keys, your wallet, your daughter if demanded, right? There's a reason some states have Castle Doctrines, Stand Your Ground Laws, and Concealed Carry Laws. "Oh please, Mr. Thug, don't hurt me"
As for the police? Gimme a break. They have bigger fish to fry than a stolen truck.
None of those laws you mentioned allow a person to follow a thief, confront them somewhere other than your own property, and shoot them. Even stand your ground laws don’t allow you to instigate a confrontation, and it certainly doesn't indemnify you if you shoot someone as a result of that confrontation. All of those laws exist for self-defense, which is really hard to argue when you’re the one who sought out the violence. I'm not disagreeing with the guy who's vehicle was stolen, and the theif arguably got what he deserved, but that's not justice, it's vigilantism, which in the US is quite illegal.
The shooter is a fucking idiot. Why call the police and then impulsively kill the "thief" in a reckless manner before they arrive on the scene? In many instances the pursuers wind up severely injured or dead, and often in jail for their stupidity. Now he's being investigated to see if he's telling the truth that the homicide victim "actually" had a weapon. The fact that there's no mention of recovering one from the scene is telling. And he involved two family members in this dangerous situation, not to mention that his poor aim resulted in at least two other vehicles being shot up.
Texans love their trucks, but a truck isn’t worth throwing your life away for. That goes for both the thief and the owner. Better to give the police the location and let them deal with it. Goes without saying, I suppose.
Yeah, the meek shall inherit the Earth, right? Be a scared little vole and hand over your keys, your wallet, your daughter if demanded, right? There's a reason some states have Castle Doctrines, Stand Your Ground Laws, and Concealed Carry Laws. "Oh please, Mr. Thug, don't hurt me"
As for the police? Gimme a break. They have bigger fish to fry than a stolen truck.
No doubt. The police will be there for you after you're a victim. If you care about the safety of your family and yourself, exercise your 2A rights and don't depend on "first responders" - they're responding to a crime that's already happened.
I have never owned a gun i never will own a gun i do not allow guns in my house nothing good ever resulted from a gun.
I have some sympathy for the sentiment, but if it weren't for the gun Hitler might have got away.
LOL this thread keeps getting worse. But carry on... this is amusing.
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a buyback program. This is how Australia got rid of a similar issue. It took them a long time but it worked. The data on gun violence is there. You just decide to ignore it or reframe it to fit your personal believes. That egocentric, narcissistic behavior… it’s disgusting.
I’m more concerned about you saying it is “anti gun rhetoric being pushed down people’s throats” while daily mass shooting are happening.
Are you trolling or a complete idiot? I assume the first.
That's just reductive to the point of absurd.
This is the twisted version of townspeople's shortsightedness at the end of "It's a Wonderful Life".
You know, you can't be both a fatalist AND insist on some right to hold your own destiny in your hands.
LOL this thread keeps getting worse. But carry on... this is amusing.