Jury acquits escort shooter

[Caliga]

That's it?

I actually liked having to go to the class.  Interacting with all of the other fine applicants made me realize that shall-issue licensing is actually a pretty bad idea.

[sbr]

That's not my actual gun, just a pic I found on Google of the model.

You can tell because all of the parts seem to be attached.

[Caliga]

Don't make me have to go get it, people.

[11B4V]

That's it?

I actually liked having to go to the class.  Interacting with all of the other fine applicants made me realize that shall-issue licensing is actually a pretty bad idea.

Amazing in a state like Washington. I think it would drive me up a wall going to a class/range for a CCW.

[DGuller]

That's not my actual gun, just a pic I found on Google of the model.

You can tell because all of the parts seem to be attached.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Where is MBM, this was in San Antonio area so he should have heard all about this case.

Didn't know about it till this thread.

[katmai]

Where is MBM, this was in San Antonio area so he should have heard all about this case.

Didn't know about it till this thread.

Dammit man, start watching the local news!

[MadBurgerMaker]

Where is MBM, this was in San Antonio area so he should have heard all about this case.

Didn't know about it till this thread.

Dammit man, start watching the local news!

Barf. I watched a few minutes tonight after the Spurs game. It reminded me how much local news sucks.

[The Brain]

America FAIL. This law that lets you murder people who refuse to commit a crime, it's federal right?

[Valmy]

I bet if the shooter was the ethnicy one and the escort was the white one, the verdict wouldn't turned out differently.

Well that was Bexar county where minorities make up well over 60% of the population.  After all the judge and the white dude's lawyers were Latinos.  Not to say they weren't self-loathing...

A rather ridiculous interpretation of a ridiculous law to be sure.

[Valmy]

Here is the relevant penal code. Note for all our foreign friends this is Texas state law. Most states do not allow you to blow people away for stealing from you, even at night:

Yeah the intent of that law is not to allow you to enforce illegal transactions.

[Valmy]

His defense had nothing to do with any claim that he felt his life was in danger. In Texas, you are allowed to kill people even if you don't think they pose any threat to you at all.

But just like in the Martin case, the fucked up gun culture that turns shooting people into an act of moral courage has created these laws that can be used to cover what any sane person would consider to be clearly homicide.

I don't think the people who write these laws are thinking "Sweet! This will let white boys kill latino hookers!" but they do have this stupid veneration for the mythos of the brave gun owner nad his AR-15 protecting his property and life from the imagined forces of chaos, and they create these fucked up laws to "protect" them from being prosecuted for it, and of course it leads to incredible results like this one.

I don't think this dipshit killed her because he thought the law protected him, anymore than I think Zimmerman really thought he needed to kill Martin to protect his life. They both acted out of a sever case of the stupids, and they were both stupids with guns, so they murdered someone.

The idea of using these laws to then get away with it comes afterwards.

It is really bizarre because, after all, the jury system is supposed to prevent these sorts of idiotic interpretations.

But the whole stand your ground law was recent.  This law is from the 70s and I am pretty sure has never been used this way and I am not even sure how the text could be interpreted that way.

[MadBurgerMaker]

This law is from the 70s and I am pretty sure has never been used this way and I am not even sure how the text could be interpreted that way.

Yeah, this definitely seems like a new way of looking at this thing.  It might just be a case of some super slick lawyerin, combined with stupid people on the jury.  All I've read are news articles though, which always seem to suck.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Did he not get hit with any sort of prostitution/solicitation/whatever charge? 

[Scipio]

That's doesn't comfort me like you think it should.

I don't care whether it comforts you or not, but I figured I should mention it since you brought it up in that totally uncalled-for ad hom you threw at me when you replied.

I can't wait until the Great Black President takes your toys away from you. 

Please.  Those guys can't even keep guns out of the hands of people that aren't legally entitled to own them.