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Texas State Lawmaker Opposing Deadly Force Bill Shoots Would-Be Thief (Oh, Sweet Irony Alert!)
FoxNews.com ^ | July 9, 2007 | Associated Press

Posted on 07/10/2007 4:55:17 AM PDT by OCCASparky

HOUSTON — A state lawmaker who opposed a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force pulled a gun and shot a man he says was trying to steal copper wiring from a construction site, police said Monday. Rep. Borris Miles told police he was fixing a leak on the second floor of the Houston house he's building Sunday night when he heard a noise downstairs and saw two men trying to steal the copper. After Miles confronted the pair, one of the men threw a pocketknife at him, Houston Police spokesman Victor Senties. Miles, a former law enforcement officer, shot the man in the left leg, police said. The wounded suspect was being treated at a Houston hospital. Police were trying to identify the other suspect. Charges of aggravated robbery are pending against the wounded suspect, Senties said. Police said Miles, who is in his freshman term, is licensed to carry a concealed weapon. No charges have been filed against Miles, Senties said. Miles, a Democrat, voted against a bill that gives Texans stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, vehicles, and workplaces. The so-called "castle doctrine," passed by the Legislature this year, states that a person has no duty to retreat from an intruder before using deadly force. The law goes into effect Sept. 1.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; hypocrite; irony; yesterday
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Think he'd change his vote, given the chance?
1 posted on 07/10/2007 4:55:22 AM PDT by OCCASparky
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To: OCCASparky
Think he'd change his vote, given the chance?

Nope.

2 posted on 07/10/2007 4:57:10 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: theDentist

You’re right—silly me. One set of rules for ‘Rats, one set of rules for the “little people”. What was I thinking?


3 posted on 07/10/2007 4:58:34 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: theDentist

He’s a Democrat. He didn’t vote on the issues.


4 posted on 07/10/2007 5:01:44 AM PDT by steve8714 ("A man needs a maid", my ass.)
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To: OCCASparky

This ‘Castle’ law has already passed in Alabama.


5 posted on 07/10/2007 5:09:53 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: OCCASparky
No he would not change his vote.With the Democraps it is always do as I say not as I do. They like African Americans are a special breed and very emotional so as Tavis Smiley says,we are an emotional people so that excludes us from the law.
6 posted on 07/10/2007 5:13:35 AM PDT by gunnedah
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To: OCCASparky

Too bad the felon was not more competent.


7 posted on 07/10/2007 5:23:45 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: gunnedah

Emotional thinkers are not thinkers at all.

Animals.

When an animal is presented with stimuli, it reacts. Stimulus->Reaction. Slap a lion, it will bite your hand off.

Fully-formed human beings are blessed with the ability to think. So when humans are subjected to stimuli, we can pause, think about our options, and then choose to react. Stimulus->Think->Reaction. Slap a human, and they can variously shoot you, kiss you, ignore you.

Emotional people don’t think about consequences, options, experience, because they don’t think at all.

Animals.


8 posted on 07/10/2007 5:23:49 AM PDT by Stallone (Fred Thompson is the Man for the Times)
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To: OCCASparky

He needs to be put on trial. You can’t shoot someone who’s merely trying to steal wire from a construction site, and everyone knows that pocket knives do not kill. Only guns kill.


9 posted on 07/10/2007 5:24:15 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: OCCASparky

“No charges have been filed against Miles...”

Since the law is not in effect yet, they ought to give him a taste of his own medicine. If I’m reading this right, he was on a construction site. But the new law doesn’t protect people on a construction site anyway. It only protects them in their homes, vehicles and workplaces. So this guy is toast in any event.


10 posted on 07/10/2007 5:27:28 AM PDT by Brilliant
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... is licensed to carry a concealed weapon...

Since he was on his own property, why is this even a consideration? Is it the lib "journalist's" way of announcing to the world that he has a CCW?

11 posted on 07/10/2007 5:33:18 AM PDT by CPOSharky (An organization that kills those who do not believe it's dogma is NOT a religion.)
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To: OCCASparky

Can somebody remember the name of the Washington Post reporter who railed against private ciizens owning guns, then shot someone breaking into his home?


12 posted on 07/10/2007 5:33:32 AM PDT by NRA1995 (To Congress and Mr. President: This is OUR country, and don't you forget it!)
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To: Brilliant
He is a former police officer. No charges will be filed because no charges CAN be filed against officers.

I am glad he had a CCP. It will keep at least one copper thief from yanking out copper. $50 worth of copper is a lot more than that with the labor involved to replace it.

It also explains his NO vote on the castle doctrine. He is safe, protected by the thin blue line, but the Great Unwashed having guns would only make him nervous.

13 posted on 07/10/2007 5:37:42 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: OCCASparky

Proof positive that politicians DO NOT do what they want to LEGISLATE The People into doing.


14 posted on 07/10/2007 5:41:54 AM PDT by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: NRA1995

Carl Rowan, I believe.


15 posted on 07/10/2007 5:44:32 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: texas booster

No charges will be filed because Texas law allows much more leeway for use of deadly force when it is night.


16 posted on 07/10/2007 5:46:45 AM PDT by CPOSharky (An organization that kills those who do not believe it's dogma is NOT a religion.)
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To: CPOSharky

I am not advocating that charges should be filed, but the demoncrats have a special way with “do as I say, not as I do”.


17 posted on 07/10/2007 5:49:47 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: OCCASparky

You can tell him what you think of him here:
http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/email.php?dist=146&rep=borris.miles


18 posted on 07/10/2007 5:50:18 AM PDT by 2Am4Sure
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To: texas booster

Get a grip.


19 posted on 07/10/2007 5:52:51 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: expatpat

Carl Rowan, I believe.

It was indeed Carl Rowan, and his pistol wasn’t registered so it was illegal.


20 posted on 07/10/2007 6:11:00 AM PDT by killerw ("Man shall not live by bread alone. He must have peanut butter". Hezekiah 3:26)
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