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Cedar Park Dad wrote:

To play devil's advocate, how many thousands of dollars are you willing to pay to an attorney to defend you for shooting a person who is vandalizing your property?

An excellent point.

That's why it's devils advocate. But vandalism is not without it's consequences. The kids that remove stop signs and people die at an intersection. No, I am not advocating shooting for vandalism. Or hanging horse thieves. But some would. But if I were on the jury in this case because of my personal experience with vandalism I would let the shooter walk.

Cedar Park Dad wrote:

tomtexan wrote:

The trucker was arrested and will face aggravated assault charges.

Police said there were multiple 18-wheelers with flat tires outside of that apartment complex.

Despite the apparent vandalism, deputies said the district attorney's office has no plans to press charges against the vandal.

Wait, what???

So it's ok to slash tires now but not ok to defend against the destruction of your property?

Things that make you go hmmmm....

Inversely is it ok to kill a man for slashing your tires? I hope they're good tires...

To play devils advocate, what point is it ok to kill a man for slashing your tires. How about if it costs you thousands of dollars to repair? If it were theft of your property for thousands would that be ok? How about if you lost the ability to earn an income? If someone commits a crime and therefore you have loss of money (or income) has that not been money stolen from you? Vandals spray graffiti on your walls and you spend thousands to fix ( or the city fines you for not fixing). I know that legally the individual did not have the right to shoot for vandalism but how much financial loss does one have to put up with before one takes action? Having been the victim of vandalism at a time that I was broke and I had to spend a considerable money to get my car back in action it meant that the family did not have money for food or rent just so that I had wheels to go to work. Who knows what I would have done if I had cought the vandal.

Perp is lucky all he got was a bullet in the rear. Slashing tires on a bunch of 18 wheelers could have got him killed. Wonder how much those tires cost? As far as I am concerned the trucker was asleep in his "home" which was being invaded.