"(The shooting) has been devastating on my family, words cannot describe how bad this has been. It has caused untold grief on all of us. I feel for my daughter and grandchildren." Pasadena Joe Horn who on November 14 shot two unarmed black men in the back.
The once no nonsense vigilante Joe Horn we heard in the 911 tapes wetting his pants to go outside and kill a couple burglars leaving a neighbor’s home (neighbors he did not know) is now singing a very different tune of poor, poor pitiful me. With the help of three articles in the Houston Chronicle this Sunday, Joe Horn is now painted as a kindly old family man and grandfather.
The third article of the entire email interview available in the Chronicle print edition does not seem to be available online. It matters little as it was only Joe Horn selling himself as a kindly wonderful family man and grandfather who likes riding his ATV, listening to music, and traveling "the USA" and wants to see all "the USA" before he dies. Joe doesn’t seem to have any itch to see Mexico, Africa or France, let me tell you. I suppose he can only go places where he can keep his shotgun in his pickup truck.
In these new articles we also find that Horn had gotten his shotgun out of his pickup
truck to heroically shoot a couple unarmed men in the back. If as he says, he was
no longer a hunter or a shooting range guy, what was a shotgun doing in his pickup truck?
Others weighing in on the wonderful Joe Horn besides Joe Horn himself was his second wife Carole Horn who was married to him for 3 1/2 years "He’s a little bit
dominating. We’re just two different people."
Joe Horn’s self proclaimed gun nut lawyer Charles Lambright said "I’m more of a gun nut with a concealed weapon permit than he is." He also said Horn has no concealed carry permit, military experience
or gun club membership.
Joe Horn expressed some sort of long ago epiphany, "After this hunt, I lost all my desire to kill any more animals, I went hunting a few more times but
I was no longer interested." Horn stated concerning bagging a huge elk in Idaho 30 years ago. Seems Joe Horn finds shooting animals is heavier on the heart than shooting unarmed men in the back.
About the only voice around here that is not equating Joe Horn to deity
status and actually questioning shooting unarmed people in the back comes from the most dispised man in Houston, black activist Quanell X (Houston’s local version of Al Sharpton) who said, "It won’t be the first time a white person shot a black person and he is not indicted." Quanell went on to point out that last month Wadie Spikes, a 58-year-old black man, was immediately jailed for fatally shooting a dog that attacked him, though Horn was never taken into custody for killing two black people who did not attack him. Here we come round again to find dogs rank above blacks in such matters.
The various laws in Texas that some call the Castle laws and others name License to Kill laws will be sure to find Joe Horn walking free from indictment in this case.
As a nation – and more so Texas, and even more so Pasadena, Texas – we place property rights above all, including human life. It is why we are so quick to war, so pleased with our death chambers and what fuels the craziest gungoonery in the free world. But this case is more than that encompassing our propensity to a history of lynching, of racism, and our growing fervor over the false crisis of illegal immigration that talk radio, Lou Dobbs, Tom Tancredo and the Republican Party have falsely put upon us.
Other than a few black activists it is near impossible to find anyone not singing the praises of shooting unarmed black undocumented Hispanics in the back. It bodes poorly for a large swath of Americana with small minds, black hearts and big guns.