Houston Chronicle Editorial on Texas Vigilante Joe Horn

I was born and raised in Texas and spent a good many years on the East Side of Houston, which is just across the channel from Pasadena, Texas, where Joe Horn gave those dumbass home invaders a dynamic lead injection.

While I don't know Joe personally, I know the people in that area, and I knew the Pasadena police department. Come to think of it, I knew the Houston PD and the Harris County Sheriff's Department pretty well, too. I used to target practice on the sheriff's gun range.

Anyway, I knew many LEOs down there, and those guys have an historic and worldwide reputation as badasses, which is not entirely undeserved. Over the years, these agencies and officers have caught hell for various infractions against the citizenry, including police brutality and even murder. In more recent years, they've policed themselves a little more closely, and they're not so quick to clear leather as they used to be.

In fact, the LEOs in Texas kind of prefer that responsible citizens "take care of business," if you know what I mean. The LEOs can't be accused of civil rights violations when the citizens themselves are doing the dirty work. And I believe that Texas grand juries and DAs and judges also appreciate the fact that citizens are cleaning up the streets in their own way.

Look at it like this: Joe Horn capped a couple of bad guys — doesn't matter if they're threatening him or not, nor if they're armed or not. Fact was that those criminals were breaking and entering a neighbor's home, thus threatening the security of the entire neighborhood. A successful burglary makes the neighborhood a target — anybody out there in law enforcement knows that bad guys will hit a soft neighborhood repeatedly.

So, Joe Horn capped these no-good criminals in broad daylight. What happens as a result? Two pieces of dog crap go in the ground. Horn's neighborhood is now officially OFF any burglar's hit list — no burglar of ANY color or nationality is going to invade Joe Horn's hood. The neighbors feel safer.

The LEOs are relieved that they didn't have to cap the bastards and risk a ton of paperwork, suspension, an internal investigation, and possibly unnecessary force or hate crime charges.

The DA and courts are relieved that they don't have to waste time prosecuting a couple of bad guys who would be back on the street in 3 months, and they're really relieved that they're not prosecuting a couple of LEOs for doing their jobs.

So, aside from the fact that capping bad guys is just common sense — it's the right thing to do — it also reduces the load on our overburdened law enforcement and judicial systems. It's no wonder that Joe Horn's case was no-billed... Even if you don't want to call him a hero, you have to admit that Joe did EVERYBODY a favor.

The only people Joe has to fear now are the hate-filled anti-gun liberals who have been making death threats against Joe. Nice bunch, eh?

And one more thing... The Chronicle is definitely NOT "moderate Republican," whatever the hell that means. The only "Republican" newspaper in Houston was The Houston Post, which went out of business over 20 years ago. Ever since then, the VERY liberally-biased Houston Chronicle has shoveled out more inane anti-American bullshit than most Houstonians can stand.