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I drink and carry all the time on my property. Texas is pretty lenient about carrying on personal property. If I'm drunk and someone breaks into my house, I am still going to shoot them. This is a very possible scenario since I drink quite often. That's also why I stay at home a lot. I don't want to involve other people in my vices.

I do take care to conceal my weapon. I live in a nice neighborhood and don't want to frighten the people that are afraid of guns. If I'm drinking I stay inside of the house or in the backyard, which is pretty secluded for the most part. My idiot next door neighbors have seen me toting around things like AK's and such, but that's when coming home from shooting or a gun show. I take them right inside the house and I'm sober at that point.

The question is the legality, which was answered. I guess there really isn't an answer since it's blank on this issue. I did call the police one night at the old place after a drunk Hispanic person tried to open my front door. I walked out and racked my shotgun as he was walking off of my property. He didn't even look back, so I let him go. When the cops showed up I told them if he would have walked into my house he would have been a dead man. They knew I was pretty lit. They were kind of joking around with me and asked me what kind of gun I had. I said I'd be using a .12 gauge shotgun. They told me that's the best home defense weapon there is. They didn't seem to think I would have been in the wrong and they knew I'd been drinking.

If I shot someone in my house, whether sober or drunk...I'd still answer a couple of questions and then call my lawyer. I would NOT say how much I had to drink though, even if it was just a glass of wine. I'm allowed to get as drunk as I want at my house and if someone decides they want to break and enter, then that's their problem.