03-31-2019, 10:57 PM
(03-30-2019, 04:18 PM)syscrash Wrote:Quote:Did you mean, "Now days it "COULD NOT" get you a lethal injection?In Texas you COULD GET the death penalty for murder. Hanging a horse theft would count as murder.
Quote:ust a small note. The days when it was imperative to hang horse thieves, back then, when you stole another man's horse, you took away his livelihood, his way to make a living. If he was camped out in the wilderness and woke up to a missing horse, it could become a matter of life and death. It was a case of contributing to another mans inability to survive in that wilderness.Ok replace horse with car or truck. Your using the a horse is someone lively hood as a false correlation. Hanging horse thefts applied to more then horses. The only requirement to hang someone was the community agree that you where wronged. It did not matter how you where wronged. People where hung for hunting wild game on someone else land.
Very few issues that people have moral or immoral opinions on have governed by laws. Remember you may think morallity is something people agree on. The truth is morality is subjective. And just like your opinion on promiscuity is an individual opinion not a known fact.
Quote:Even today, in some parts of the globe, the behavior of what the characters on Grimm committed, could mean jail time. In a few places, for women, even justified killings.And in a lot of places if you don't live by kill of be killed you would be dead. In a lot of places you can be killed just because someone does not like you. does not agree with you. or they they simple think it is funny to see your brains on the floor. I understand your understanding of what is appropriate when it comes to violence. But many places are extremely violent and people live by the laws of nature instead of the laws of man.
Quote:Who's moral standards are you looking to use? Yours? Theirs? Ours???????That is the problem. You feel someone has the ability to define what is moral and what is immoral. Morality is the rules an individual lives by. It should not be the rules someone uses to govern someone else actions. Example you see someone running down the street naked. You may see it as immoral or indecent. That does not make it immoral or indecent. Consider in the 50 a bikini on the beach would get you arrested for indecent exposure. Not anymore even though nothing has changed in the law. But even now some still see wearing a bikini as indecent.
WTF are you talking about? What century did you live in Texas? Better yet, do you have any idea of what you are talking about? Texas has similar laws as here in PA, when it comes to protecting life and property. Notice what I said, laws protecting life and property, not gun laws.
In Texas, like here in PA and some other states, you are allowed to use deadly force to protect your life, someone else life and your property. Yea that is right even in 2019 with deadly force. So if you break in my house and try to steal my PC and TV, I use to watch Grimm, I have the right to use deadly force to stop you.
A few years back, an old couple living in the vicinity of the Scranton, Wilkes Bare area had their home broken into, by two hoodlums, in the middle of the night. Both elderly folks got ruffed up and the punks ran out of their house with some valuables. The old man stepped outside his front yard and aimed his rifle at the two running away and shot them. He killed one and wounded the other.
The local ass-hole district attorney tried to indict the old man for murder, since the dead guy was shot square in the back claimed by the DA he was running away. But since the new law was just passed, allowing law abiding citizens to use deadly force to protect life and property, the Grand Jury threw the case out.
Now I may choose to use an umbrella to kill you with, if you show up at my house and try to take my stuff, like the few reported killings committed with umbrellas, according to FBI reports, but most likely, you would be shot from one of my hand guns I legally own and that would be the end of it.
Now take my neighboring state of New Jersey. A few years back, An old man had a black bear trying to break into his house through his back sliding door. He took his hunting rifle and shot the bear dead. He was found guilty and heavily fined for hunting bear with out a license and out of season. He also lost all rights to ever hunt again or own a firearm.
So whats moral? What legal? Depends where you live. Capisce. BTW, the 4 townships where I live that make up the school district where my kids went to school, have no police departments.
Even with laws that allow us to own Class 3, full automatics machine guns, such as M-16 instead of the made up assault weapon as an AR-15, which is semi-auto only. We are also allowed to own Silencers, M-3 Grenade launchers, RPG's, Bazookas, Working Flame Throwers. I also know of one WW2 re-enactor to own a full functional MG-42 with a rate of fire of 1200 rounds per minute, that's 20 rounds per seconds, yet for some reason, crime is so low, we don't need the police.
You know you are OLD, when you see the Slide Ruler you used in college selling in an ANTIQUE SHOP!!