I have to agree Marcia.....How could you mistake Paul for Artie, fluffy hood or no fluffy hood.....You need Specsavers matey!!!

Far too many guns and relaxed gun laws in America - that should never have happened

well you're also in Texas and that's a free for all when it comes to "the right to bear arms". Thanks to Bush it got even worse.
If someone knocks at your door there is no reason to shoot IMO. They are outside so why shoot at them? Unless there is much more to the story than what the news says. They are not right often.
But why was he at his neighbor's door at 4AM? You are taking a chance on getting shot that way there in Texas and someone who is from there would know that. Too little info to know what exactly went on there. 
I always heard you can shoot (or defend yourself against) an intruder in the US when they are inside your home and you feel threatened. So always invite them in and then shoot or shoot and then drag them in....hmm strange laws indeed.

maybe there was trouble between the two from way back and the burglar story was just to make it look good.
Who knows the real story...

I see many victims here, the man who shot him has to live with that now. It's got to be hard to make that right choice at 4 AM and you don't know what's happening. If you believe someone is trying to kick your door down at 4AM, what would you do?  You can't reason with them when they are drunk.  Everyone feels bad for the dead person, as usual.

well when I lived in the south many cops told me their attitude was to shoot first and ask questions later; so that seems a lot of the mentality...You do not mess with southern cops, there is no talking to most of them when you get pulled over or something like that, like you could up north. Many people there have that same  mindset. It's how they are raised.
I don't think it's funny at all! I said in earlier posts that I thought there are nothing but victims left behind in this...there are no winners. jeeeeezzzz.....
For all we know that neighbor is a hothead who was triggerhappy or the dead person was acting real crazy or both...

well I think they usually say to "aim low" if you feel your life is in danger and have no choice. But then, one never knows. And at such a time who on earth sits and thinks about it? You have to react to a situation in a split second. the guy will have a tough road ahead thinking about this. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.

Of course!  had there been no gun, Carter would be alive and this man would not be in the position he's in...

On Edie Brickell's website, is it true that the video with the song "Stories that we tell ourselves" is of the grounds of their house and that the dogs and cat in the video are theirs ?  Just got the Paul Simon newsletter, think it's from Bodo or someone ?  They seem to think it's a farm that Paul and his wife live on ... they don't even live on a farm.  Is that actually Edie Brickell singing ?

One of the dogs in the video does look like one of his dogs I saw in a picture once ...

In that case, they have a Caviler King Charles and what looks like two terrier-mixes plus a cat.  You know what they say about looking like your dog !  We once had a conversation on this site where we had to guess if Paul & Artie were dogs, which breed they would be.  I do remember saying that Paul would definitely be a terrier.  You would think that with all the land they have, they would go for bigger breeds.

I thought Edie Brickell would have sounded like Nanci Griffith or Dolly Parton.  She doesn't.  Maybe she's lost her Texan accent !  (She must have given it to Paul - he went through a phase of an exaggerated drawl)   

Do you look like one? LOL! Nice video btw.