Here's a question for you...

You look out the window of your house and see two men climbing out the window of your next-door neighbor's house, carrying your neighbor's belongings. Your neighbor is out of town, so you know they haven't hurt anyone. You call 911 and report the crime, the dispatcher tells you the police are on their way. What do you do then? Do you sit and wait for the police? Or do you take the law into your own hands?

Joe Horn of Houston, Texas chose to take the law into his own hands. He chose to get his shotgun and blast away at two illegal immigrants who had broken in and stolen some of his neighbor's personal property. He's not going to be tried for it either; the judicial system in Texas has chosen not to indict him for it. It wasn't his property, he wasn't in any danger, he'd already called the police who were coming; how is it that he's not being charged with murder? Even the dispatcher on the 911 call knew what he was going to do because HE TOLD HER; how can he not be tried for taking those men's lives? He was not in fear for his own life, but he gets away with killing them, yet if a woman waits until her husband (who's been beating on her for years) turns his back before she grabs a gun and pulls the trigger, she is tried and convicted and sent to jail for life? I can't understand how anyone could not only allow this 'vigilante justice' to go unpunished, but applaud the vigilante!! If the robbers had been trying to murder or rape someone, or if the man's own life had been threatened that would be different, but to shoot them because they broke into someone's house I can't see. And this in a country that just decided that to put someone to death for child rape is unconstitutional!