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Merritt Landry, a 33-year-old “white caucasian” shot the victim, a 14-year-old black boy, in the head. A single spent cartridge case was recovered at the scene, indicating that a semi-automatic weapon was used and suggesting that a single shot was fired. The hour of the shooting was approximately 2:00AM, on Friday, July 26, 2013. As of this writing the victim is reported to remain alive, in critical condition at a local hospital.

philip964 wrote:Homeowner was arrested. Shot intruder in tall fenced backyard. It was 1:30 in the morning. He ordered the boy to freeze, but the boy turned and put his hand to his hip. Dog alerted owner to presence of intruder on property.

Since no crime had been committed other than trespassing. Was it a justified shooting in Texas, since it was at night? Or in Texas would it solely depend on whether the homeowner was reasonably in fear of his life?

I'm thinking I like Caucasoid better than "White Caucasian". Is there now other kinds of Caucasian, so that it needs a white in front of it. Like "Black Caucasian" for Obama.

philip964 wrote:Homeowner was arrested. Shot intruder in tall fenced backyard. It was 1:30 in the morning. He ordered the boy to freeze, but the boy turned and put his hand to his hip. Dog alerted owner to presence of intruder on property.

Since no crime had been committed other than trespassing. Was it a justified shooting in Texas, since it was at night? Or in Texas would it solely depend on whether the homeowner was reasonably in fear of his life?

gringo pistolero wrote: There's a good argument it would be burglary in Texas and therefore the shooting was justified. Here's why. A fence around a house is a "structure appurtenant to" that house. In Texas, that makes the area enclosed by the fence part of the habitation. Unauthorized entry into a habitation is burglary if the offender intends to commit any felony, theft, or assault. So it comes down to why the criminal entered the habitation without consent in the middle of the night.

gringo pistolero wrote:

philip964 wrote:Homeowner was arrested. Shot intruder in tall fenced backyard. It was 1:30 in the morning. He ordered the boy to freeze, but the boy turned and put his hand to his hip. Dog alerted owner to presence of intruder on property.

Since no crime had been committed other than trespassing. Was it a justified shooting in Texas, since it was at night? Or in Texas would it solely depend on whether the homeowner was reasonably in fear of his life?

There's a good argument it would be burglary in Texas and therefore the shooting was justified. Here's why. A fence around a house is a "structure appurtenant to" that house. In Texas, that makes the area enclosed by the fence part of the habitation. Unauthorized entry into a habitation is burglary if the offender intends to commit any felony, theft, or assault. So it comes down to why the criminal entered the habitation without consent in the middle of the night.

It's not a slam dunk defense, because some people might believe QX's story that "the innocent child" was one of Santa's helpers and was there to leave Christmas gifts.

suthdj wrote:There was a black female comedian who had this down pat.
White-Mexican is Whexicn
White-Asian is Whasian
White-Black is Whack
Black-Mexican is Blackexian
Black-Asian is Blasian
etc.....

RottenApple wrote:

suthdj wrote:There was a black female comedian who had this down pat.
White-Mexican is Whexicn
White-Asian is Whasian
White-Black is Whack
Black-Mexican is Blackexian
Black-Asian is Blasian
etc.....

I'm a TEXAN-American!

sjfcontrol wrote:

RottenApple wrote:

suthdj wrote:There was a black female comedian who had this down pat.
White-Mexican is Whexicn
White-Asian is Whasian
White-Black is Whack
Black-Mexican is Blackexian
Black-Asian is Blasian
etc.....

I'm a TEXAN-American!

Texican...

jmra wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:

RottenApple wrote:

suthdj wrote:There was a black female comedian who had this down pat.
White-Mexican is Whexicn
White-Asian is Whasian
White-Black is Whack
Black-Mexican is Blackexian
Black-Asian is Blasian
etc.....

I'm a TEXAN-American!

Texican...

If another Dem gets elected after Obama, I may be fine with just "Texan".

jmra wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:

RottenApple wrote:

suthdj wrote:There was a black female comedian who had this down pat.
White-Mexican is Whexicn
White-Asian is Whasian
White-Black is Whack
Black-Mexican is Blackexian
Black-Asian is Blasian
etc.....

I'm a TEXAN-American!

Texican...

If another Dem gets elected after Obama, I may be fine with just "Texan".

Teddy Roosevelt wrote: There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.[1]

sjfcontrol wrote:

Merritt Landry, a 33-year-old “white caucasian” shot the victim, a 14-year-old black boy, in the head. A single spent