A career criminal tried to forcibly and illegally gain entrance to a trucker’s cab last night, not far from Coal Creek Armory. Said criminal is no longer breathing.
In terms of legality, Tennessee State Code 39-11-611 (c) seems to exonerate the trucker, but, as always, I am not a lawyer, and nothing I say here should be construed as legal advice. In any case, there are some definitive oddities about the current information, especially how the alleged cab invader knocked, then left, then broke the window, then left, then finally tried to gain access to the cab. Depending on the amount of time between each event, the trucker could have called the police, or even moved his cab; but I can also understand how hard it can be for some people to wake up completely and grasp what is going, or how afraid the trucker might have been, and he might have just been wishing the person would go away. Hell, he could have left his cell phone up in the main cab, and did not want to provide a target to the criminal. Despite those oddities, based on the current information I have available to me, I see this as a relatively cut-and-dried case of self-defense, and I am further thankful that the victim (to be specific, the truck driver) is unharmed.
At any rate, there is one more dead home-invader (a trucker’s cab is his home for more time out of the year than his house is), and one more unharmed citizen, all thanks to that citizen having the presence of mind to prepare himself for any possibility, and the will to follow through with those preparations. And to think, some people would gleefully strip that 68-year-old trucker of the very tool that potentially saved his life, and leave him facing an opponent half his age with naught more than his bare hands and blunt-force tools. As I have said before, such people are doing nothing shy of aiding and abetting the criminals intent on doing harm.
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