I am furious. For those of you unfamiliar with the case, here it is. Joe lived in a home. Joe witnessed a burglary next door. He called 911. The police were on their way.
I read the 911 transcript. He expressed great anger and anxiety about the fact that "They're going to get away!". He got a gun. He told the dispatcher he had a gun, and he was going to LEAVE HIS HOME and shoot them. He was safe inside his home. He had no reason to leave his home except the fact that some thugs might escape Man's justice (but never God's). The dispatcher begged him to put the gun away and stay in his home.
I mean, so what? They get away with some money. They will not change their ways and begin a fresh new life, they're going to stay criminals, criminals make mistakes, and criminals get caught. We were robbed 4 years ago, a crackhead stole a lousy lawnmower. I actually went outside and got his license plate. He was never convicted of our robbery, but they got him on another crime and he had to go off the crack in jail. Justice served. Hopefully he realized I could have killed him and he changed his ways. I was completely naked when I confronted him. I doubt he's forgotten the experience (and I'm taking my pills now).
So, back to Joe. He arms himself, goes outside, and SHOOTS THEM IN THE BACK AS THEY ARE RUNNING AWAY. The autopsy report was clear. One of the shootings didn't even occur on his property.
In my book, that is premeditated murder. He decided to kill people, planned it, and executed it. Some will say, the guys who died were not nice men. So what? They are children of God and only God should end a life. Others will say, well, they could have done this or that, Joe had to keep them from "getting away". The point is, the stole cash from a home and ran away. That's all.
My low-carb message board had a whole "thread" - discussion topic, devoted to the subject. Some of the replies were terrifying. Well, if you break the law you should expect to die. Huh? I didn't think we lived in the Middle East!
Robbing an unoccupied home is not a capital offense. No one citizen has the right to end the life of another citizen, because they are "unhappy" with the police response and it offends their sense of propriety to think they might "escape justice". How is it good citizenship to shoot two people in cold blood, as they're TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM YOU?
Our stockroom has been robbed as well. The sense of moral outrage and fury is horrible. You want to commit a violent act, but God's watching! He's watching everything we do and we WILL be held accountable for every act we commit while we're here on Earth. God REPAYS those who wrong us, and sometimes, delightfully, we get to hear about it.
Example: I'll call him Bob. Bob stole 500 dollars from our stockroom (we don't store money in it anymore). He broke the lock off the door and used an illegally copied key to steal the money. That's a month's mortgage payment for us. We knew it was him, he had stolen from us ONCE before but given the money back. When we were ranting, he mentioned that "They didn't take all your money, did they?" - a fact only the thief would know. We tried to tell the Postal Inspectors and get some action taken but it never went anywhere.
In the meantime, this guy's strutting around with $500 of my husband's hard-earned money in his pocket. Like most men, Bob really valued his car. He had a custom dashboard cover, paint job, and stereo system, and fancy seat covers.
Until God decided enough was enough. Bob's car erupted in flames as he drove home a few weeks after the robbery. He barely saved himself, and the car was a total loss. It was absolutely HYSTERICAL to watch him rant and rave about losing his property. I even told him, "That's how we felt after we were robbed." Oh, the look I got.
Bob was so dumb he stole from his own employer. He was caught and fired. He had an adjustable rate mortgage so I'm sure he's lost his home by now as well.
I think that's pretty good, Godly, vengence, don't you?
God DOES repay, and Joe Horn is on God's shit list for murder. I hope he truly repents before he dies.
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