Joe Horn: Hero or Murderer?

Yeah, Americans, "don't get involved". Just close the blinds and hope that they don't enter your property. Hide like the cowards you have become. The police will save you.

A hero is a person who puts his own life at peril to protect another or their property. Criminals, when forced with the possibility of capture will turn to any means available to avoid capture, even killing witnesses. Anyone getting in their way is putting their life in jeopardy even if they are armed and the perps are not. That is exactly what Joe did.

Life has no worth, it is priceless to the one who posesses it, and worthless to those who take it. Property, too is priceless, because property is absolutely paramount to freedom. Without it we are little more than slaves. The right to defend ones property and family with force needs no law or legislative approval, it is inherent in all free people. It is natural to also apply that right to a neighbors property. Neighbors are afterall part of our extended family circle.

The police are not here to protect you or your property and no freedom loving American would want to depend on them to since they are seldem around when needed. No, that is why we have the 2nd amendment. It gives us a means to protect our property from all methods of plunder.

If you are a coward, you stay inside and let someone else deal with it, as often happens today when people witness crimes. If you believe that it is your responsibility to defend the property of others as if it was your own, then you act as Joe Horn did.

$1000 is the value the thieves put on their own lives, when they broke and entered anothers property.

First of all, as long as Joe Horn is living in that neighborhood, I'm sure everywhere visible from his house, or in shotgun range of his house atleast, is going to have less crime.

I heard a clip of Joe talking about the situation, and he said it was sort of an adrenaline/spur of the moment type thing (not exact quote) because the robbers started crossing into his property and he got scared when they wouldn't stop when he yelled at them.

So what I'm saying, is that the way his mind was thinking, it was a life for a life.

I would personally like to have Joe Horn as a neighbor. There's no police force in my town (seriously... it doesn't exist), so I'd have one of the safest houses around. There's actually a saying about where I live, "If you're gonna kill someone, do it in Atwater"

neither: scared

life is worth a lot more but so is his own life

neither you nor i were there to judge... you don't know what they did to him that caused his action...

you don't know what was going through this man's mind when it happened.

Only God and Joe Horn now know what really happened and the man did what he thought was right.

Someone posted on a news blog here in Houston, that if had been two white men the news would have been different. No one deserves to die, but one does choose the road they are going down and these guys did not choose good over evil.

I pray that no one has to go through anything similar, on either end of the spectrum.

God bless the souls of the dead and have mercy on them, and God give strength to Joe Horn as well, because he is going to need it.

If more people would do that,perhaps there would be less crime.

He may have been technically wrong,but morally as far as I'm concerned he was right.I don't really care at this point how he came to make the decision he did,just that he made the decision. The fact of the matter is that people end up dead at the hands of robbers everyday in America. It's about time we turned the tables on them,it's not about the $1000,it's the principle. Of course in America we now villify those who stand up for what is right,Pathetic!!

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He is neither a hero nor murderer. Murder would imply malicious intent to kill, while he was killing for protection (of property). He was withing accordance of Texas law, so there's nothing you can legally hold against him. It was wrong to kill those men like that, so I can neither call him a hero or murderer. Realistically, a good classification for him would be "vigilante".

Besides, the criminals were life-long criminals, who were in the country illegally to begin with. Essentially, the victims were scum, killed in midst of committing another crime.

I think he was right to try to stop them because it is right to try to stop people when they are doing something wrong. I don't think that killing them was his only option. If they were running away and were no threat to him, then he should have tried to shoot to stop and not shoot to kill.

Another option would be to keep them from getting away in their car or getting a good description of the car and the liscense number so that they could be more easily caught.

He ran a 10.80 in the 100M for AU.

4 time state champion for Waynesfield-Goshen

Oh you mean someone else.......

I agree with the above answer. I would like a neighbor like that. If we the people keep giving up our rights we will be communist within 5 years.

PURPOSELY ALL CAPS...

IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SHOOT AN ATTACKER IN THE BACK! TO DO SO IMPLIES THEY ARE RETREATING AND POSING YOU NO THREAT.

MY FAV PARTS OF THE WHOLE THING?? THE 911 OPERATOR INSTUCTED HIM TO NOT GET INVOLVED

AND

AN OFFICER ARRIVED IN AN UNMARKED CAR BEFORE THE SHOOTINGS AND DID NOTHING TO STOP IT.

GOTTA LOVE TEXAS JUSTICE

He was under no direct threat, or so it would seem, and there is no death penalty for the crimes those dirtbags were committing, so I would put it short of murder and well short of hero - more like manslaughter.

That guy is an idiot. It should be illegal to sell guns to people whose IQ is below a certain level.