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[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by RawleyD

No, Nine8Six. The Texas laws against property and personal defense are NOT Hollywood.

There are many people in the USA that still take the safety of their property and family very seriously, and will use force to defend either if the situation should arise to do so.

I'm appalled this fact would be so far over your head.

Yes, Rawley, it was a bit of shocking news to me.

Left CA in my early 20s and lived & homed in 7 (seven) different countries during the last 18 years, all of which had very strict weapon bans in place. I also had to travel more than 14 other countries during my 6 years as a crew/team member when motogp was as its peak. You'd think that someone like myself have seen and heard it all, well wrong lol. Like I said, I vaguely remember hearing about this law before but again, I was under the impression that it was simply made up. For obvious reasons, I didn't get too far in finding whether it was true or not.

Like I previously said, regardless of this TX law I refuse to believe that a Texan citizen would "shoot" (read kill) another person for simple vandalism. Pulling a gun at someone as a last warning, yeah okay, beating up the crap of someone for stealing their backyard BBQ, yeah okay, but I just can't picture anyone there "pulling the trigger" in its very true meaning. You'd have to give me very hard evidence to make me believe that the "true" local culture is as you are describing in any ways. That said I am not that shattered or too worried. I am however extremely disappointed at the local/state government/emergency services for being THAT lousy. That's all.