<a href="https://guides.sll.texas.gov/gun-laws/stand-your-ground" rel="nofollow">https://guides.sll.texas.gov/gun-laws/stand-your-ground</a><p>links to <a href="https://www.uslawshield.com/defend-property-texas/" rel="nofollow">https://www.uslawshield.com/defend-property-texas/</a><p>> Texas law allows you to use deadly force to protect property if you would be justified in using force, and you reasonably believe it is immediately necessary to prevent the imminent commission of specific enumerated property crimes. These are arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime.<p>I'd think that'd qualify.<p><a href="https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/?tab=1&code=PE&chapter=PE.9&artSec=#D" rel="nofollow">https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/?tab=1&code=PE&chapter=PE...</a><p>> Sec. 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:<p>> (1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and<p>> (2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:<p>> (A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or (B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and<p>> (3) he reasonably believes that:<p>> (A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or (B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
I can’t see a catalytic converter theft on a car parked on the street as burglary. Parked in a (private) garage? Yes, burglary. Parked on the street? No.<p>So, daytime theft of a converter from a car parked outside wouldn’t qualify I don’t think.
Parked in your driveway
No, the driveway wouldn't count. Texas doesn't define burglary by property boundaries; you have to enter a "building" or a "habitation", and a habitation must be a "structure" or a "vehicle".
If you sleep in the car it will qualify no matter where you're parked. This also appears to be true of an RV or any vehicle that clearly accommodates sleeping.<p>For reference:<p>"Burglary" under the Texas penal code is defined by entering a habitation or any portion of a building that is not open to the public, either with the intent to commit a crime, or when followed by the actual commission of, or the attempt to commit, a crime.<p>"Robbery" is theft in which the thief causes an injury to someone else. (Or intentionally threatens to do so.)<p>"Theft" is what it sounds like.<p>Most notably burglary need not include any element of theft. I feel like it's a mistake for the legal code to distinguish between what are fully interchangeable terms in the language the code is supposedly written in.<p>On topic for this particular comment, "habitation" is specifically defined to include vehicles "adapted for the overnight accommodation of persons".
You can legally murder people to prevent "mischief", as long as it's at night? Wow.
The alternative would be completely incoherent. If it's OK to prevent theft, the appropriation of property, it must also be OK to prevent criminal mischief, which is the destruction of property.<p>Note that the harm to the victim is identical in both cases, except that in the case of theft, recovery may be possible.
“Legal” murder makes absolutely no sense. If its legal its not murder. You mean “legally kill”
Yeah.<p>You expect pigs to defend you?