When Citizens Treat the Constitution as Toilet Paper

There is an interesting court case going on in the Lonestar State.

This guy, not that young, sees two burglars trying to break into a neighbor’s house and shoots them dead. They turned out to be illegal immigrants later.

Great civic sense! No, problem. I would like to have such caring neighbors too as long as their gunshots don’t pierce through my window and through my heart. In fact the law in that state allows preventive shooting in self-defense.

Then, you may ask, what is my problem, if it is within the law?

Only this one:

This guy of a patriot called 911 and let the police dispatcher know in advance about his intended good neighborly, mercy killing.

The police guy told him not to do it as the cops would be soon on the way. For his own safety he was asked to remain inside especially since the burglers were not on his property.

But this good Samaritan of a neighbor told the cop that law allows him to commit that murder, that he should mind his own business (which anyway is called law-enforcement whatever that means), and went out and killed those guys in cold blood.

What did he think was the job of the cops in this?

Just to record his brave, good neighborly deed? A clerk is enough for that. That saves money too on law-enforcement training too.

Are cops just ornamental scarecrows or just silent witnesses in a gory bullfighting arena?

Or, did he think that any illegality in commiting murder he doesn’t know can be wiped away by ensnaring the cops into this?

If the guy was cocksure it is within the law, there was absolutely no need to intimate the cops.

The now fawning neighbors of this gunslinger should realize that a gun-totting neighbor can finally end up murdering them too, as in present day America not everybody can be expected to know everybody else in the neighborhood.

Now, a bulb lights up in my head:

How about moving to the Lonestar State?

Where else I will get such too helpful neighbors willing to commit murder on my behalf? Where else you can find such legal luminaries who can teach a law or two to the cops before committing murder?

May be, once there, I can steal my neighbor’s wife, dispatch her husband heavenward, and then tell the court I was trying to protect her from her abusive husband – all according to the constitution.