dude wastes 2 ****ing thieves in texas.

[rndockery98]

look people.....if this guy was so in fear of his life, he would have stayed his ass inside the house-period, end of story. did you hear the first 911 call? he was itchin to get out there and shoot somebody. i don't necessarily think that those two robbers needed to be alive, but it was in no way Joe Horn's responsibilty to kill them, or even a decision he had to make. The cops were on their way, he could've done his civic duty by just staying on the phone with the 911 operater and giving the police all the details so they could catch them. He is soooooo lucky that they only had crowbars because he could've easily been shot if they had guns. Last time I checked it's hard to kill two people with one shot. He would've been shot long before he got off his second shot. Too many people in America want to shoot first. I do agree with the right to bear arms and the right to protect myself, but this guy wasn't protecting himself. He put himself in harms way by going outside. He was specifically told by the 911 operator to stay in the house. No possesion is worth dying over.

[Leadfoot_mf]

look people.....if this guy was so in fear of his life, he would have stayed his ass inside the house-period, end of story. did you hear the first 911 call? he was itchin to get out there and shoot somebody. i don't necessarily think that those two robbers needed to be alive, but it was in no way Joe Horn's responsibilty to kill them, or even a decision he had to make. The cops were on their way, he could've done his civic duty by just staying on the phone with the 911 operater and giving the police all the details so they could catch them. He is soooooo lucky that they only had crowbars because he could've easily been shot if they had guns. Last time I checked it's hard to kill two people with one shot. He would've been shot long before he got off his second shot. Too many people in America want to shoot first. I do agree with the right to bear arms and the right to protect myself, but this guy wasn't protecting himself. He put himself in harms way by going outside. He was specifically told by the 911 operator to stay in the house. No possesion is worth dying over.

see that is what the problem is. if more people would take this kind of action maybe more thieves would look for a new line of work.

[rndockery98]

see that is what the problem is. if more people would take this kind of action maybe more thieves would look for a new line of work.

but more thieves would start carrying guns also, so the result would probably be more innocent people dying than thieves.

[Ruiner]

but more thieves would start carrying guns also, so the result would probably be more innocent people dying than thieves.

Most/may thieves do carry guns, though. You just never know who is armed and who isn't. That is why you need to take control of the situation. When they approached him in HIS yard, he didn't know if they had guns or not nor should he have to "see" them first. They confronted him as well and under fear of his own personal safety, he shot.

[Nomad!]

look people.....if this guy was so in fear of his life, he would have stayed his ass inside the house-period, end of story. did you hear the first 911 call? he was itchin to get out there and shoot somebody. i don't necessarily think that those two robbers needed to be alive, but it was in no way Joe Horn's responsibilty to kill them, or even a decision he had to make. The cops were on their way, he could've done his civic duty by just staying on the phone with the 911 operater and giving the police all the details so they could catch them. He is soooooo lucky that they only had crowbars because he could've easily been shot if they had guns. Last time I checked it's hard to kill two people with one shot. He would've been shot long before he got off his second shot. Too many people in America want to shoot first. I do agree with the right to bear arms and the right to protect myself, but this guy wasn't protecting himself. He put himself in harms way by going outside. He was specifically told by the 911 operator to stay in the house. No possesion is worth dying over.

I don't know man, if you give people that liberty, they'll take way to much advantage of it. Next thing you know kids will be getting shot by their neighbors trying to sneak into their own houses at night, or even better when Johnny goes to visit his girlfriend while her dads out of town, and her car's parked in the closed garage, and the neighbor blows his head off upon exiting the building.

Good points. So many posts sound so caviler but not many of them appear to have much thought put into them. I have no sympathy for thieves but, praising this guy as a hero is ridiculous. After hearing the 9-1-1 call, he sounds more like an opportunist than a hero.