There's no brandishing in Texas. And display of a firearm to discourage imminent threat to your life (or something along those lines) is protected by law.Isn't what the father and son were doing considered brandishing? For handguns, my understanding was that it should stay tucked away until I was ready to use it. Then, it should only clear the holster just prior to my booger hook pressing the bang switch.
Isn't what the father and son were doing considered brandishing? For handguns, my understanding was that it should stay tucked away until I was ready to use it. Then, it should only clear the holster just prior to my booger hook pressing the bang switch.
Read the post above your post about "brandishing." Geez, where are some of you people getting this info? Makes it sound like you are from California or the Northeast where they want abolish firearms.When they start charging police officers with brandishing for pulling their gun prior to any indication of a threat then I'll apply that same standard to citizens. It seems like he didn't aim his gun at the mental guy until he used it, which is more than can be said for some in law enforcement.
While this is not an ideal case of self defense if I were on a jury I would acquit. The guy in orange had mental issues, a long criminal history, and was practically begging for what happened. I would be fine if the DA let these two men plea it down to misdemeanor for discharging a firearm in public.
Read the post above your post about "brandishing." Geez, where are some of you people getting this info? Makes it sound like you are from California or the Northeast where they want abolish firearms.
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(8) displays a firearm or other deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm;
Well, call it what it is and not something else....In Texas when someone refers to brandishing they are generally talking about disorderly conduct.
https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-42-01.html
There's no brandishing in Texas. And display of a firearm to discourage imminent threat to your life (or something along those lines) is protected by law.
In Texas when someone refers to brandishing they are generally talking about disorderly conduct.
https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-42-01.html
And the irony is that the police chief had the Millers re-arrested and bonds raised because he was concerned that they were out in the community...Been reading Mr. Orange Shirt had been arrested almost 300 times?!?!?!?
Hory Clap! Why wasn’t the crazy in prison?????
If you read between the lines in their facebook press release, they basically said they didn't have the resources to respond, if someone had called. Assuming the call even made it through.What a shite show.
Maybe the po-po were just fed up with dealing with this guy? When the call came in it was Oh Its Crazy Orange Shirt. Again. For the eleventythousnadth time. We will go over there later.
On this note, by the time I walked into Dispatch 9-1-1 in response to this violence, I noticed all of our telecommunicators were emotionally impacted. They were simply overwhelmed. Between 7 am this morning and noon, they have received 255 calls, including a possible self-inflicted death investigation, on top of the murder. In 45 minutes alone, they handled 57 calls, and they simply ran out of officers, adding to their stress.
Doc Hollandaise