Store Owner Shoots a Robber

Here I am, in front of my computer trying to find a blog to critique....Finally after going through many blogs I found this blog that talks about how a Houston store owner shot a man who tried to rob his store.

Supposedly there were two robbers dressed in black that came into the store and attempted to rob it. Luckily the store owner was armed and could defend him self and his property. When the two robbers saw the man had a gun they fled the business. The store owner run after them to trying to chase them but one of them fled the scene in a 90s model Ford Taurus, while the other stopped in the parking lot and turned to the owner, at that time the owner shot several times and hit the robber once. However, the robber continued to run through the parking lot and after trying to cross the street, he was hit by a car and died. There were no charges filed against the store owner.

After reading this article I have to say I totally agree with the author in that "The beauty of the Texas Castle law is that you no longer have to flee or retreat when someone threatens you or your property." Thank God we as citizens have the right to shoot somebody when they brake into our property and try to rob us. It is amazing how criminals brake into our properties and try to take away from us the things that we work so hard for. I think we as citizens have to do things like this in order to make crime stop or at least to make criminals think twice before the mess with us!

Should guns be allowed on Campus?

I really enjoyed reading this article from The Dallas Morning News, released on February 27, 2009. It is very controversial, because it talks about how a State Representative and a Senator are pushing for the legislature to pass a law that would allow students and professors to carry guns on campus.

Supposedly this would make it more safe in the case situations like the one on Virginia Tech would present. I my opinion, I personally think, this would actually make things worse. It is somewhat more terrifying knowing that many people around you are armed, rather than acknowledging the possibility that a situation like the one on Virginia Tech could happen. What if a similar situation as the one on Viginia Tech really presented, and the students and professors started shooting. Would the fact of them carrying guns make the situation better? Would it work in safing people's lives? Maybe, I don't know. But I have to agree with the author, in that, maybe when the police intervenes, they could confuse the students who are just shooting to protect their lives with the person who started the shooting, or they could be shot by the police by mistake as well.

The author clearly expresses his ideas of opposition. I think he did a great job explaining the reasons why he opposed, and I have to say, I agree with him!