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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5716163" data-attributes="member: 8835">Well, from a real case here in Houston a few years back:a neighborhood had been getting hit by a spate of robbers.One resident, notices 2 black dudes breaking into his neighbor's house.  He calls 911 and gets his shotgun.the 911 dispatch tells him to stay inside, but he goes out and confronts the robbers.  He also says something racially disrespectful, but given the circumstances may apply to the bad people robbing his neighbor.As I recall, they turn and run, and he shoots them in the back, killing them.Quannell X shows up to make a big deal out of the story, because that's what he does.  The guy making the racial statement on the 911 call being his focus for "hate crime".The news covers it the whole time.  Ultimately the case goes to a grand jury where they do not bring the case to trial.  The jist is, the guy defending his neighbor's property under the terms of the Castle Law in Texas is cleared.I may have gotten a detail or two wrong, but the case is: guy catches 2 suspects in the act and kills them as they turn to run and he is not prosecuted in a formal trial (though a grand jury thing is like a trial and probably just as serious).If a guy can shoot 2 crooks in the back at the scene of the crime, a grandma can chase a purse snatcher a bit and shoot him in the ass.  Legal Precedent works that way.</blockquote>