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"Seems a good man with a gun DOES stop a bad one with a gun"

What happens when the Good Guy gets it wrong and kills a 9 year old bystander ?

Is that just the price to pay for Freedom ?


A Texan couple were targeted by a robber at an ATM. The robber bolted when the Good Guy drew his weapon to defend himself.

However, the Good Guy went one further and shot at the fleeing would be robber.

Unfortunately, he chose the wrong car to shoot at and killed a 9 year old girl inside.


He was arrested and charged with "aggravated assault".

But, as it's Texas, he was not prosecuted. Emphasis added.

Will you dismiss this killing as an example of "spurious, baseless rhetoric" ?


"Arlene Alvarez killed: Harris Co. grand jury declines to indict robbery victim who shot 9-year-old

An investigation determined Earls and his wife were targeted by a robber near a Chase Bank ATM in the Gulfgate area. Earls then got out and shot at the fleeing suspect and a pickup truck that he thought the person was getting into, police said.

But the pickup was not the suspect's getaway car. Instead, Arlene and her family were inside.

Earls was arrested and charged with aggravated assault but with the grand jury's decision, his case cannot be presented again, according to Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.

"The grand jury, a random group of ordinary people in Harris County who answered their jury summons, heard the evidence in this case as presented by our prosecutors, heard all of the possible charges - from murder to manslaughter to aggravated assault to criminally-negligent homicide.

That grand jury also heard possible defenses," Ogg said, explaining that deadly force can be excused including under defense of property cases."

https://abc13.com/robbery-victim-tony-earls-no-billed-arlene-alvarez-death/12061282/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark