Wife thankful husband is alive after he crashed into Seagoville home and was shot by homeowner

Wife thankful husband is alive after he crashed into Seagoville home and was shot by homeowner (fox7austin.com)

I am not sure what to think of this.
Perhaps this is in the wrong forum.
Mods please feel free to move if this is the case.
Some very interesting issues here.
Discuss.

 

Time to take away the old mans license.

 

What kind of ****ing paranoid idiot shoots someone who has an accident?
Time to take away this coward's guns.

 

The article is vague. It doesn't really say what happened after he was shot. Did the homeowner call 911? I don't think the owner handled this properly. So many better ways to handle this situation and if he felt threatened he should have called the police. Shooting the person should be last resort.

 

Did he know it was an accident?

 

I mean its pretty easy to see why everything happened. You hear a loud explosive crash. You run down and see a car has gone through your gated fence, and is now in your house after going through windows. Driver is acting erratically behind the wheel and is flooring the accelerator and not responding to commands. You'd have no idea that he is doing such because of a seizure.

 

Okay I'm going to go ahead and say the quiet part of the reason this is a story out loud..... Someone overreacts with a gun so we should take away everyone's guns....

 

When seconds count, the cops are minutes away.

 

He felt threatened by an old man having a seizure?

 

Was it dark out? Were the windows tented?
Was it possible to homeowner thought this person did it on purpose?

It seems like too much information is missing to jump to a conclusion.

 

And crashed his car into his house.

 

He needs more than just "possible to think he did it on purpose" to justify the use of lethal force, dude.

 

And? So what? Can I just open fire someone who crashes into my fence? No questions asked? No reasonable suspicion of a lethal threat?

 

Someone driving their car through two barriers on your property and literally entering your house in a 2000lb vehicle while continually hitting the gas is pretty valid.

 

Unless I'm standing directly in front of the vehicle and have no means to move to the side, how is that a threat?

 

How would you react in that exact same situation? Don't bother, I already know: you don't have idea how you would react. So, save the judgemental crap for someone else.

 

Threat would be to both property and people. Who's sitting on the couch in the living room, eating breakfast at the dining table, cooking eggs on the stove? A 2000lb + is literally moving through this mans house with the accelerator fully deployed down.

 

You don't know that the homeowner didn't have reasonable suspicion to open fire.

 

If someone crashed into my house? Unless given some reason to do otherwise, I'd make sure my family and pets were safe and then check on the driver.

 

Based on what?

 

Or, you might **** yourself and go catatonic...lol. You have no idea.

 

So your version of the story is that he was sitting in his living room, handgun in his holster at his side, and just fired two shots the moment the car crashed?

 

I don't know. I wasn't there. Neither were you...lol

 

Possibly. I've come much closer to dying before and managed to act, including almost getting hit by a car, though. And I think you'll find lots of research showing that people act this way all of the time.

 

So you agree that you know of no justification for the shooting. Glad we agree.