WTF is it With TEXANS and Their GUNS?

the father will get off because he was being verbally threatened . Texas has a "**** you and die" law.
Jesus woulda wanted that.

What's the issue here?

17 year old found in Daughters room. Daughter claims to not know him. Kid argues with Dad and reaches for a weapon and is shot.

Wrong place, wrong time, tough ****. I don't see that plying out much different in Cleveland. What does it have to do with Texas?

I don't know how you can conclude the girl is white. There is a picture of her father and he's as dark as the dead boy.

I didn't catch that. I assumed the daughter was black based on the article.

I was commenting on the original post in this thread.

OK, I assumed that part, I was wrong.

I would hate to be that girl right about now.

If I walk into my 16yo daughters room and find a boy her age under the bed (nakid?), I am going to assume that she knows all about it. She was not sleeping despite it being 2:30 am. This idea that he thought he was an intruder is very thin.

Do me a favor. Watch this active graph all the way through.
And while you're watching think about this.

Isn't it time we stopped this mindless massacre?

http://guns.periscopic.com/?year=2013

As long as so many people believe shooting is the answer to any fight, it will continue.

I dont even think cops should be able to legally kill people they claim they thought might be reaching for a gun...or something.

One shot....I think there was an intent to kill. I said the same about the Zimmerman/Martin affair, there should be a higher standard of threat to legally kill someone than there is to shoot and wound someone. This gun culture message "if you are going to take the shot then shoot to kill" is barbaric and bizarre.

"if you are going to touch your wife in anger then really clock her"

Nope, does not work. Max force is rarely justified. Min force needed to get the job done is the civil approach.

There's been a slew of incidents like that here in S Florida .

In the nation 2013:

This is a list of people killed by non-military law enforcement officers in 2013, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding either wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or the officer involved. Killings are arranged by date of incident which caused death.

Month 00000000000 Number of killings in list
December 6
November 31
October 27
September 39
August 28
July 15
June 20
May 32
April 13
March 33
February 20
January 45
Total 309

does it mention how many of these killers were entered into the criminal justice system?

No.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States

17 year old found in Daughters room. Daughter claims to not know him. Kid argues with Dad and reaches for a weapon and is shot.
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Daughter ought to be in big trouble, though in any sane society papa would be in deep ****.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/deadly-force/142-dead-and-rising/national-data-shootings-police-not-collected

We know exactly how many rape kits have not been tested across the entire country, but how many people the cops and shot and killed....no.

It is all about priorities.

I have understood why police do that, trying putting myself in their mindset, which I think has some backup in reality but not as much reality backup as they say. Lots of quicksilver mistakes with fear going on. I take there is a lot of profiling but don't think that's all of it.

Meantime, the shoot to kill mode permeates both thug culture and police procedure, and now people with homes to protect who've seen movies for decades.

As I've told before, my husband's family (they lived in south LA, an iffy part of it when they were there. A couple of blocks from '92, in '92). Husband's parents were thrifty depression era white folks and bought a low priced house. They got along, had friends around, but did go through a home invasion - two or three guys, one with shotgun. All the money in the house was in a piggy bank in the boy's room. It wasn't the inaccessible gun in the closet that helped them, down on the floor, it was that while the invaders were in or towards the back part of the house, the crippled mother hobbled outside and screamed, and somehow she didn't get shot - the perps have fear too, sometimes, and they ran away.

I don't do guns and I think the gun culture in the U.S. is out of its mind. As were the supremes. But what is happening fits in with endless braggadocio up yours as how to just talk.

To be clear, I don't mind if you have one, but keep it away from me.

A lot here know my father was chief of photo for the bikini bomb tests. As I knew him over the years, he was a man of peace, and so were some of his mates, one a submarine captain who became a jesuit.

Where does it say that the kid reached for a weapon?