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Texas Bill Would Require Homeowners To ‘Retreat’ Before Using Deadly Force
The Police Tribune ^ | December 10, 2020 | Holly Matkin

Posted on 12/11/2020 10:16:12 AM PST by george76

Austin, TX – Texas lawmakers are considering a bill that would require homeowners to “retreat” before using deadly force in certain situations.

Under Texas’ “castle doctrine,” citizens have the right to use deadly force to defend their “land or tangible, movable property,” KPRC reported.

House Bill 196, filed by Rep. Terry Meza (D-Irving) earlier this month, would require homeowners to be “unable to safely retreat” before they could legally use deadly force against a perpetrator.

Property owners would also no longer be able to use deadly force to stop aggravated robbery or robbery crimes under the bill, according to KPRC.

“A person who is in the person’s own habitation, who has not provoked the person against whom the deadly force is used, and who is not engaged in criminal activity at the time the deadly force is used is not required to retreat before using deadly force,” according to the proposed legislation.

Critics have accused Meza of trying to repeal the state’s “castle doctrine” by forcing people to surrender their property and flee before resorting deadly force.

But Meza said she is just trying to stop people from being so quick to shoot criminals on their property.

“My bill HB 196 and my position on the Texas Castle Doctrine has been misrepresented in the news as of late,” she lamented in a series of tweets on Nov. 19. “It does not repeal the Castle Doctrine, and it does not restrict homeowners from using firearms in self-defense as applicable to current Texas stand your ground laws.”

Meza said her bill “would require a homeowner to exhaust the potential of safely retreating” into their own home before they could legally use “deadly force in defense of themselves or their property.”

She explained she filed the bill because the current “castle doctrine…emboldens people to take justice into their own hands.”

“While theft is obviously wrong, we have laws to address that,” Meza reasoned. “I don’t believe that stealing someone’s lawn ornament should be an offense punishable by death.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he has no intention of backing the bill.

“Let me be clear,” he tweeted on Wednesday. “The Castile Doctrine will not be reduced. We won’t force Texas homeowners to retreat. Especially with the crazy ‘defund police’ ideas, homeowners need to protect themselves now more than ever.”

“We will protect 2nd Amendment rights,” Abbott wrote.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; armedcitizen; banglist; guncontrol; homeowners; rkba; secondamendment; selfdefense; texas
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1 posted on 12/11/2020 10:16:12 AM PST by george76
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Retreat how? Shooting at the intruder? Turning one’s back would be useless and deadly.


2 posted on 12/11/2020 10:17:37 AM PST by madison10
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To: george76

No.


3 posted on 12/11/2020 10:18:15 AM PST by Skywise
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To: george76

Yada yada. Always on the side of criminals, those RATs.


4 posted on 12/11/2020 10:18:22 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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Retreat?
How far?

2 inches?.................


5 posted on 12/11/2020 10:18:56 AM PST by Red Badger ( “The goal of socialism is communism.”... Vladimir Lenin)
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To: george76
Texas Bill Would Require Homeowners To ‘Retreat’ Before Using Deadly Force is DOA.
6 posted on 12/11/2020 10:20:35 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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Ah, a sure sign that the disease of liberalism is indeed in the fine state. Texas, get to it. Liberals are to scorned, chased, tarred & feathered, chased out, and if required, offed.

Stat.


7 posted on 12/11/2020 10:20:40 AM PST by Da Coyote
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I will immediately retreat to the location of my weapons.


8 posted on 12/11/2020 10:20:58 AM PST by windsorknot
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Acreage and a backhoe makes Austin's run away bill moot.


9 posted on 12/11/2020 10:21:14 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (Everything you've heard about TX is a lie - stay where you are.)
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"...just trying to stop people from being so quick to shoot criminals on their property..."

Maybe she should try to stop people from stealing other people's property.

10 posted on 12/11/2020 10:21:55 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: Seruzawa

And again we see the direct impact of Texas’ dumbass libtard infestation emanating from California, New York and every other Demonic Party-filled POS city/state... true to their parasitic roots, these POS scum eff up their states and move to a new “host” state to destroy it with their dumbassed laws against the law-abiding - friggin’ unbelievable.


11 posted on 12/11/2020 10:22:31 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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She is on Twitter if you want to leave her a ‘message’.

Terry Meza
@TerryforTexas


12 posted on 12/11/2020 10:22:33 AM PST by Beowulf9
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Retreat? How far? 2 inches?.................

I think the law says that you retreat until you are six feet under

13 posted on 12/11/2020 10:22:39 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: george76

Meza doesn’t want any resistance to his compadres from South of the “border” when they invade your home


14 posted on 12/11/2020 10:22:54 AM PST by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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all the homeowners will have to claim is that the person had a gun on them and retreat was impossible even though the homeowner ‘sincerely tried’ to retreat


15 posted on 12/11/2020 10:24:55 AM PST by Bob434
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To: george76

Why is it that Democrats are always more concerned about the welfare of criminals than lawabiding citizens? Is it because the want to protect a kindred spirit who would be a Democrat brown shirt if asked?


16 posted on 12/11/2020 10:26:09 AM PST by Truth29
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Even Massachusetts has changed the "castle doctrine" so fleeing is not a first requirement.

In Texas, the bill should fail miserably.

17 posted on 12/11/2020 10:26:54 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (If liberals had a conscience, they wouldn't be liberals. )
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Dead on arrival....


18 posted on 12/11/2020 10:27:10 AM PST by wardamneagle
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Burglars should be required to retreat when encountering a resident. If they don’t and they survive they should receive additional jail time.


19 posted on 12/11/2020 10:28:43 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: madison10

Yesterday on local Austin talk radio, the brain dead libs and their call in was insane. I think that Austin is truly lost.


20 posted on 12/11/2020 10:29:53 AM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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