Not in TX. You can shoot people for robbing your neighbor's house in TX.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=5278638

 

Maybe she was being followed by some nutcase and felt she was in danger and just ran into a house for safety. You scared her so much she ran into the house next door. That is what I would have done, and then explained to them what was going on.

Let us know what that was all about if you find out.

Glad you are all ok though.

 

"If you don't want to die in Texas, don't come to Texas and rob Texans!" Bottom Line!

 

I think that while everyone needs to be able to "shoot to kill" when there is no alternative, we all need to also realize that a reasonable resolution is to scare somebody off. Regardless of the outcome (and $$$cost) for going to trial, you will always be looking over your shoulder for some family member or friend of the low-life you put in the ground. I believe you need to have this straight in your head before the situation occurs.

 

Spear guns work well too...

In 1969 my best friend met a burgler in his home...at 2 AM...my friend was 15 years old...he was holding his CO2 spear gun...the burgler came towards my friend with a baseball bat...the spear went through the burgler's chest taking the burgler's left lung to the back of the kitchen wall...that burgler never robbed any more homes. For that matter, he never did anything else.

 

I keep my Kimber UCII in the night stand.

But I understand that a shell being jacked into a pump shotgun will sometimes alter events as well.

 

no offense ment, but the guns the kids can't "reach" are usually the one involved in the accidental shootings involving children. I am a "gun guy", and raised my children to understand guns & aand the dangers they pose. at age 8 I started teaching them to first respect, then to shoot guns. they did not have to sneak a peek, or worse at the guns in the home because they knew dad would let them shoot if they wanted so they did not have to sneak. again no offense ment, just my opinion---Budro

 

Hey
did you find out what the problem was?
HHR minds want to know!!

 

When ever I go upstairs to my computer room, out back, or to the bathroom, I make sure either/or the front and back door is locked. For that matter, if I am not on the first floor, or in the house, the one or the other door is locked, or both. Three dogs in the house, or the yard, sometimes not all out. Also have a V E R Y nice Samurai Sword collection and know how to use them

 

Lived in the Mississippi Delta most of my life.. where
You kept all doors and windows locked! When we moved to TN. (a small town) people thought I was crazy for being so protective. You dont have to lock your doors they would say. My reply was and is... it wont be me or my stuff the paper will be writing about when the crime wave catches up to our small town. I dont want to lose anything to be told to lock it all up. Been there and done that in the Delta! Those same people lock their doors now!