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But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.