“Grand jury declines to file charges against man who killed robber at SW Houston taqueria”

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  1. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Graphic video below.

    So an armed robber walks into a taco joint and waves a gun. A person who's munching on his tacos shoots him dead as he's about to walk out the door and possibly endangering the people on the street.

    I'm surprised they charged the guy at all, but that's just me. What do you folks think, good shoot or bad?


    https://twitter.com/Tr00peRR/status/1742663668704108776
     
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    Melb_muser Well-Known Member Donor

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    Shot in the back? Maybe not appropriate.
     
  3. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm guessing that's why they charged the guy, but the jury, members of the public who have to share the streets with the criminal, thought the shooter did the right thing, or at least wasn't wrong.
     
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    What's wrong with shooting someone threatening to kill you in the back.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I think it was the last shot, the tap to the head, that got the DA all riled up. But the criminal was probably already a goner by then.
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Looks like the least crazy leftists are starting to understand reality is a thing.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I’ll tell ya, if a thug with a gun walked in on me like this thug did, I’d probably be all amped up and put as many bullets into him as I could. I’m not trained to deal with this stuff, I just want to protect my family, and the sudden rush of fear would make me shoot and shoot and shoot. Apparently the grand jury felt the same way.
     
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    Yeah and the best opportunity you'd have to do that is when he's pointing the gun at someone else.

    People act like shooting someone in the back is bad in situations where another person is trying to kill you and other people. I'm quite sure they can't explain why though, since they're thinking with their feelings when they say that.
     
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    The dead man has a gun, what is he going to do next if he isn't shot? We don't know because the he was killed. If he steps out the door and starts shooting people then what?
     
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    Yeah. He was incapacitated and that was a shoot to kill.
     
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    Melb_muser Well-Known Member Donor

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    I honestly don't know.
     
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    After not being able to get Shelia Jackson Lee to be mayor. The left knew they would never get a guilty verdict out of this.A waste of money going to trial.
     
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    there was no way to know if he was walking out, he was walking back and forth, changing directions, looked like a good shoot to me
     
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    Well it's liberal Houston so that would explain him being arrested for it at all.

    Liberals tend to think that the criminals have more rights than their victims.
     
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    this is not political, it is what it is, we do not know the party of the players in this, of the grand jury, anyone, but seems to be a good shot, thus a good call by the GJ
     
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    And? Cops do that all the time. The whole point of shooting someone and self-defense is to kill the individual thereby putting a stop to the hostilities.
     
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    some in both parties think some are above the law.... both are wrong... no one should be above the law
     
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    And yet 99% of the time when you see someone being dragged into court for legally defending their self with a firearm it's because it is a liberal City.
     
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    did he shoot him a second time in the head, only saw one shot, thought he was checking him after that
     
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    99% of the time it cause the homeowner shot the criminal in the back outside the home as he was fleeing, that would happen in my republican city too

    had this man ran and was outside the store fleeing, and the man shot him, that would be a crime
     
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    ok, if he left the scene, and shot him that many times (the last shot), he could have been charged, he is very lucky he was not charged - of course may be more to story than this or first part may of not been reported correct (as for the one robbing the place, no sympathy for him, he brought this on himself)

    https://www.news.com.au/world/custo...ic&utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

    "The customer can then be seen shooting him in the back four times before the robber collapses to the ground.

    Then, while standing right over the robber, the customer shoots him once more at point-blank range, video shows."

    "The customer then collected the stolen money from the suspect and returned it to other patrons before he and other customers fled the restaurant, according to police."
     
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    I think most people are getting sick of this type of violent crime, I think if more were shot, less would do it.... just the reality of it

    I would not recommend fleeing after though, as most would be charged I think for fleeing
     
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    9999% JUSTIFIED
    When the other guy decided it was OK to go into a public place and wave his gun in peoples faces he also ACCEPTED he could also risk being shot by one of them. Also, he can never do this again. We are safer and have a smaller carbon footprint thanks to that brave taco connoisseur.
     
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    Looked clean. Excellent shot. No real danger of hitting anyone innocent. And he needed to make sure the guy wasn’t moving. One less POS in the world. Good riddance. The guy is a HERO!!!
     
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    Sorry but shooting a guy in the head who is already on the ground with 4 shots in him is in no way heroic.
     
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