detaining someone with your weapon

Liberty · #16

seamusTX wrote: People have been prosecuted for failing to conceal in road-rage incidents.

... and this incident sounds something like road rage.

seamusTX · #17

Liberty wrote: ... and this incident sounds something like road rage.

Road rage doesn't have a legal definition in Texas. As long as actions are limited to verbal provocations and gestures, it is not a justification for the use of force.

Finding someone with a slim jim down your car window or trying to pop the trunk is definitely attempted theft and justifies the use of force, but not deadly force.

-- Jim

Dougmyers5 · #18

Tell the BG to come back tonight at 9:00PM that the car will be available then to burglarize. Then jump him when he comes back at 9!
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I would pull my gun and point it at him and say do you want to pound sand or push up Daisy's the choice is yours and then smile at him!

BShook · #19

It seems that your ability to actually keep someone on the premises at gunpoint would rely almost exclusively on your demeanor and how seriously they take you.

A Napoleon Dynamite type couldn't do it, but a Sean Connery type could. ;)