🚀 go-pugleaf

>I believe a home owner can use deadly force to prevent a crime in
>process.  So if a armed home owner is chasing his television set,
>he can do anything he need to recover his property.

Texas law has some provisions that your lawyer can use, during your trial,
to justify your use of deadly force to protect property.  Whether you
are arrested & charged depends on the judgement of the arriving officers,
their supervisor, the DA and the grand jury.  Best be prepared to explain
why you did what you did a lot of times to a lot of people.

We arm ourselves because we are preparing for worst case situations.

Yet many of the Rambo types on this newsgroup assume that in a deadly
force situation it will become the "best case" situation: they will
ambush the bad guy, their bullets will magically cause him to drop, they
will not freeze or panic under the stress, their family will not be
psychologically affected by having someone killed in their home, the press
won't drag them through the mud for weeks, they won't suffer any
post-shooting trauma themselves, and the cops and courts will pat them on
the head.  

Maybe it will work out that way.  If you aren't prepared to deal with
the "worst case" scenario during and after the incident, then I argue
that you really aren't prepared at all.  

The best $20 you can spend on training is to buy a copy of
"The Bullet Proof Mind", an audio taped lecture by Lt. Col David Grossman,
sold by Calibre Press.  It's a 2 hour class on what happens to the mind
under stress, how to prepare for it, and the morality and ethics of
using deadly force against another human being.  Unlike all the macho BS
posted here, it's the real facts, from someone who has spent a career
studying it.  His recent book on the subject, On Killing, was nominated
for a Pulitzer, and he's a nationally recognized expert on the subject.

Karl
rehn@krtraining.com
http://www.krtraining.com