{"id":2770,"date":"2024-01-05T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2024-01-05T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T14:26:34","slug":"grand-jury-no-charges-for-defensive-shooting-in-houston-taqueria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury: No Charges For Defensive Shooting In Houston Taqueria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509.png\" data-caption=\"\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"457\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-696x457.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-696x457.png 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-700x460.png 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-768x504.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-150x98.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-1068x701.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-640x420.png 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-741x486.png 741w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509-560x368.png 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-153509.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2024-01-04 153509\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>About a year ago, a man in Houston made an extremely dumb decision: to pull out a realistic looking but fake gun and rob people eating at a local taco restaurant. He didn\u2019t know that one of the diners had a pistol, and the moment he turned his back to threaten other diners, he got a severe case of sudden onset lead poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>But, contrary to the advice of most instructors, the man kept shooting. And shooting. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v43668f-southwest-houston-armed-robber-vs-armed-customer.html\">see the full video on Rumble here<\/a>. This led to the usual \u201cactivists\u201d and nonsense peddlers who wanted to make this a racial issue, claim it was \u201coverkill\u201d, try to bring up the feelings of the family members, etc.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"4NeiUTJAUqU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;It&#039;s overkill&#039;:  Activists believe taqueria customer who shot, killed robber should be charged\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4NeiUTJAUqU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The case was eventually submitted to a grand jury, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/crime\/grand-jury-no-charges-taqueria-shooter\/285-6b117ced-e3c1-4ba9-a023-d6b371b5bb5e\">called for no charges against the man<\/a>. So, the controversy over the number of shots and shooting after the robber was down, won\u2019t be used against him in a trial, as there will be no criminal charges or a trial.<\/p>\n<h3>People Carrying Still Need To Be Careful<\/h3>\n<p>While things worked out in this case, there\u2019s still a cautionary tale here.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not at all saying that the man should have been charged, but the chances of going to trial and getting convicted definitely went up for him the longer he shot. Few would dispute that the initial shots were fully justified, and given all of the evidence that the grand jury considered, there must have been good justification for those final shots. It\u2019s not entirely clear in the video, but the man could have been reaching for the gun or doing something else that made him a continuing deadly threat.<\/p>\n<p>That having been said, if you carry for self-defense, don\u2019t take the good outcome here as an invitation to fire extra rounds. Every case is different, and the totality of the circumstances in every case has to be considered. If circumstances differ for a future incident you might be involved in, even if the difference is very small, things could turn out very different for you.<\/p>\n<p>For example, here\u2019s a case that definitely went too far:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"MJZdFcDmllQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raw Video: Pharmacy Shooting\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MJZdFcDmllQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2011\/07\/12\/oklahoma-city-pharmacist-jerome-ersland-gets-life-judge-refuses-to-suspend-any-prison-time\/61150833007\/\">two teenage criminals tried to hold up a pharmacy<\/a>, but found to their horror that the pharmacist was armed. One of the pellets from the pharmacist\u2019s Taurus Judge pistol struck one of the robbers in the head, knocking him unconscious but not killing him. The pharmacist ran down the street, shooting at the other robber and almost hitting some bystanders with his shotshell-loaded Judge.<\/p>\n<p>When the other robber got away, he went back inside, stepped over the unconscious robber, and got another gun out. Then, he shot the robber six more times, killing him while he obviously presented no further threat. For this, pharmacist Jerome Ersland got life in prison, with no possibility of parole until he\u2019s 98 years old.<\/p>\n<p>But, not all cases are this clear cut. There\u2019s big gray area between cases that are obvious self-defense and cases where someone clearly goes too far. You should definitely do whatever you need to do to defend against evil, but you also don\u2019t want to live in that gray zone, where tiny details and guesswork can mean the difference between freedom and life behind bars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/grand-jury-no-charges-for-defensive-shooting-in-houston-taqueria\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 About a year ago, a man in Houston made an extremely dumb decision: to pull out a realistic looking but fake gun and rob people eating at a local taco restaurant. He didn\u2019t know that one of the diners had a pistol, and the moment he turned his back to threaten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}