TEXAS -- legal question about COVID19 protection

[chaidragonfire]

Hello:

From my research, I've found that owning a taser in Texas is not illegal and you don't have to be certified to have one.
But you do need "legal grounds" to use it. There are no defining answers on what legal grounds consist of though.


And as far as I am able to find out, someone with COVID19 purposely "raping your personal space" and acting in threatening manner is considered an act of potential terrorism.

My question is.....

If I'm in public and someone purposely walks up next to me without a mask, or even touches me, am I protecting myself against a potential threat if I use my taser on them??

[Private Pickle]

Hello:

From my research, I've found that owning a taser in Texas is not illegal and you don't have to be certified to have one.
But you do need "legal grounds" to use it. There are no defining answers on what legal grounds consist of though.


And as far as I am able to find out, someone with COVID19 purposely "raping your personal space" and acting in threatening manner is considered an act of potential terrorism.

My question is.....

If I'm in public and someone purposely walks up next to me without a mask, or even touches me, am I protecting myself against a potential threat if I use my taser on them??

Doubtful.

[carolina73]

It does give a Texan a reason to shoot you and he is probably not using armed with a taser.
Now if he comes up to your car window or onto your land, then you could try to argue that his breath was a threat. Since the odds of it being lethal for you in most cases would be ridiculously low and you did not warn him that you had a heart condition or diabetes; then...the odds are that you are the one that will probably end up in legal trouble or the ER.

[texan]

Hello:

From my research, I've found that owning a taser in Texas is not illegal and you don't have to be certified to have one.
But you do need "legal grounds" to use it. There are no defining answers on what legal grounds consist of though.


And as far as I am able to find out, someone with COVID19 purposely "raping your personal space" and acting in threatening manner is considered an act of potential terrorism.

My question is.....

If I'm in public and someone purposely walks up next to me without a mask, or even touches me, am I protecting myself against a potential threat if I use my taser on them??

I assume you are being funny?

[Peter1469]

Hello:

From my research, I've found that owning a taser in Texas is not illegal and you don't have to be certified to have one.
But you do need "legal grounds" to use it. There are no defining answers on what legal grounds consist of though.


And as far as I am able to find out, someone with COVID19 purposely "raping your personal space" and acting in threatening manner is considered an act of potential terrorism.

My question is.....

If I'm in public and someone purposely walks up next to me without a mask, or even touches me, am I protecting myself against a potential threat if I use my taser on them??

First, welcome to the forum.

I am a member of the Texas bar, although I have not practiced criminal law in Texas. I have elsewhere.

Self defense is OK if it is reasonable based on a reasonable man standard and if it is proportionate to the threat. So unless the person is physically harming you or threatening harm, tasing them isn't self defense.

And if you told the responding cops that the dude was raping your personal space and you thought he was a potential terrorist you would be charged with assault for tasing the dude and the judge would likely ask for a mental health evaluation before trial.

[chaidragonfire]

First, welcome to the forum.

I am a member of the Texas bar, although I have not practiced criminal law in Texas. I have elsewhere.

Self defense is OK if it is reasonable based on a reasonable man standard and if it is proportionate to the threat. So unless the person is physically harming you or threatening harm, tasing them isn't self defense.

And if you told the responding cops that the dude was raping your personal space and you thought he was a potential terrorist you would be charged with assault for tasing the dude and the judge would likely ask for a mental health evaluation before trial.

Thanks for the feedback. So, from what I'm seeing in the news and from what I'm being told in legal forums, I'm surmising *I* HAVE to obey the laws, but everybody else can kill, maim, and destroy at will with no detrimental recourse from the cops, the city, the state, or the government.

I was just wondering if the laws were finally favoring the actual victims and not the criminals............fat chance, as usual.

Maybe I will just start carrying one of those air horns, and blow it in their face, when they get in mine.

[Peter1469]

Thanks for the feedback. So, from what I'm seeing in the news and from what I'm being told in legal forums, I'm surmising *I* HAVE to obey the laws, but everybody else can kill, maim, and destroy at will with no detrimental recourse from the cops, the city, the state, or the government.

I was just wondering if the laws were finally favoring the actual victims and not the criminals............fat chance, as usual.

Maybe I will just start carrying one of those air horns, and blow it in their face, when they get in mine.

If you do that, I suggest yelling Danger, please help. That makes it look like you are in fear and not just being a dick.

I got my wife a ring with an ear-splitting alarm on it to use on the Metro system is she is hassled by some of the trash that hang out on the metro.

[zelmo1234]

Thanks for the feedback. So, from what I'm seeing in the news and from what I'm being told in legal forums, I'm surmising *I* HAVE to obey the laws, but everybody else can kill, maim, and destroy at will with no detrimental recourse from the cops, the city, the state, or the government.

I was just wondering if the laws were finally favoring the actual victims and not the criminals............fat chance, as usual.

Maybe I will just start carrying one of those air horns, and blow it in their face, when they get in mine.

I actually like where you are going with this. If you could get a court ruling in your favor, it would likely put a shoot to kill order on all liberals as the crap that they believe it detrimental to all that hear it.

[zelmo1234]

Personally, I don't know why we would want to get rid of Covid 19

Here is MI it has cured nearly all other disease

No Flu deaths, No Phenomena deaths, Strokes, Heart Disease nearly all gone due to Covid 19

It was so good for people, that our Democrat Gov. Whitmer chose to use Nursing Homes to take people that tested positive and quarantine them in the Nursing Homes, so it would help to cure the elderly in those locations

Sure there are a few deaths from it, but when there are no other death causing illnesses, Why would you want to change it.

[Peter1469]

Personally, I don't know why we would want to get rid of Covid 19

Here is MI it has cured nearly all other disease

No Flu deaths, No Phenomena deaths, Strokes, Heart Disease nearly all gone due to Covid 19

It was so good for people, that our Democrat Gov. Whitmer chose to use Nursing Homes to take people that tested positive and quarantine them in the Nursing Homes, so it would help to cure the elderly in those locations

Sure there are a few deaths from it, but when there are no other death causing illnesses, Why would you want to change it.

If Joe wins in November COVID will be forgotten.