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Dumbazz shoots porch pirates in Georgia

If one is going to have a gun, one needs to know how to use it and under what circumstances deadly force is justified. Here in Texas one cannot use deadly force to protect property except under some very narrow circumstances. As much as I might agree that the two young hooligans had it coming, I seriously doubt the homeowner's life was in danger.

And really, is a couple of Amazon packages worth protecting with deadly force? I don't think so. This is the type of incident that fuels anti-gun ideology.
This, exactly. Since we're both Texans, I'll explain for the rest of the folks here. In Texas, the Penal Code allows for the use of deadly force to protect property at night (30 minutes after official sunset through 30 minutes before official sunrise), if and only if there is no other reasonable way to prevent it, get it back or otherwise recover from the theft.

For deliveries, even though the carriers and shippers have liability that stops once the package is delivered, you very likely have purchase protection on your credit card such that your card company will credit you the charge (this might take a police report), and for larger purchases you probably have some sort of blanket homeowners/rental insurance you could claim against (not that this would be wise). Not to mention simply contacting the vendor and reporting it stolen, seeing if they'll replace it.

There's almost zero legal justification for the use of force - much less deadly force - to prevent theft (especially in the daytime) in Texas law. Much of that section was originally written for livestock theft where it's almost impossible to recover once gone, and well before the introduction of Ring video doorbells that make recovery more possible through identification.

That's all just the law... not even the moral/ethical personal concerns over "it's one minute past sunset, I'm going to shoot that sonofabitch that's stealing my Doordash McDonald's delivery or my 'newest' $.49 Temu find."
 
I have to admit as mad as a thief makes me there is nothing I own that is worth me taking someone's life over, however wasted that life had been up to the point of robbing me. Having said that, myself and my wife are not property and I would defend them to my dying breath. Which will be with an empty 12 gauge and an empty 1911 on my corpse. And a bloodied Benchmade knife. And bloody boots and broken knuckles. Oh, and bloody teeth from the biting. And elbows. Bloody elbows for sure from throwing the soup bone. And it goes without saying bloody knees. And.....
 
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