DEMOCRAT LAWMAKER ENCOURAGES HOME INVASIONS

[_glaciers]

 

[goodknightfl]

Makes perfect sense. They mostly live in high end gated communities, with better police and sometimes even private security. The rest of us are left defenseless, while they are safe. And god knows no intruder's ever come in armed, more than willing to kill if they might be caught. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[major.tom.foolery]

This is Forrest Gump level idiocy......stupid is as stupid does.

 

[sk8knight]

Your responsibility is to flee your home. WTF? Your home is your last place of refuge.

This is criminal level stupidity and should be more than enough for an immediate recall.

 

[ChrisKnight06]

Beyond insane.

Had to do some snooping:

 

[DaShuckster]

Here's the difference between most of the responsible posters on the board and posters like glaciers:

We don't try to defend stupid, dumbass things politicians do. Not only was this obscure state lawmaker's bill stupid, it doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of passing in Texas.

Hopefully, this thread can give our resident conservatives a chance to unload some pent-up self-righteous anger after spending so many weeks trying to depend Trump's dumbass post-election shenanigans.

 

[sk8knight]

Beyond insane.

Had to do some snooping:

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Here’s the actual text of the bill: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB00196I.htm

It replaces “where a person has a legal right to be” with “in their own habitation”, thus removing castle doctrine extending to places like your car or workplace or another’s habitation and also removing any interpretation of the previous that would be stand your ground.

It also removes robbery and aggravated robbery as crimes that relieve you of the duty to retreat before using force. So, if they are breaking into your car out front of the house, you go out to investigate the noise, and they brandish a gun weapon, you are duty-bound to retreat from said use of deadly force by the criminal into your house. You can argue that there’s no retreat once the weapon is shown but people all over the US have gone to jail for this in duty to retreat states.

It also changes some wording from “would be justified” to “is justified,” meaning that you have to hold the justification hearing and possibly trial to determine that fact before you can then enact castle doctrine. But if duty to retreat would otherwise be absolved by castle doctrine and you cannot apply castle doctrine unless you are already adjudicated justified self defense, then it seems that there is a procedural issue with those updates.

 

[Boosted87]

You know, when you read something that seems outlandishly stupid, and the source is a screen grab from someone's phone, consider what you're reading might be made up. This is the equivalent of thinking an Onion article is real.

Last week, a website called GOP Briefing Room posted about HB196 in a feature called "semi-news/semi-satire," saying the bill would outlaw the castle doctrine and adding comments attributed to Meza. The feature included real news stories from states across the country but added fabricated quotes and other false information. The author lists his occupation as political satirist. ​

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PolitiFact - Comments about Texas’ castle doctrine law were satire, not from state rep

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

www.politifact.com

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

You know, when you read something that seems outlandishly stupid, and the source is a screen grab from someone's phone, consider what you're reading might be made up. This is the equivalent of thinking an Onion article is real.

Last week, a website called GOP Briefing Room posted about HB196 in a feature called "semi-news/semi-satire," saying the bill would outlaw the castle doctrine and adding comments attributed to Meza. The feature included real news stories from states across the country but added fabricated quotes and other false information. The author lists his occupation as political satirist. ​

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PolitiFact - Comments about Texas’ castle doctrine law were satire, not from state rep

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

www.politifact.com

I hope dumb asses glaciers and Dr. knighttime enjoyed their circle jerk over this one. They will never be real men.

 

[DaShuckster]

You know, when you read something that seems outlandishly stupid, and the source is a screen grab from someone's phone, consider what you're reading might be made up. This is the equivalent of thinking an Onion article is real.

Figures, given the OP.

 

[sk8knight]

You know, when you read something that seems outlandishly stupid, and the source is a screen grab from someone's phone, consider what you're reading might be made up. This is the equivalent of thinking an Onion article is real.

Last week, a website called GOP Briefing Room posted about HB196 in a feature called "semi-news/semi-satire," saying the bill would outlaw the castle doctrine and adding comments attributed to Meza. The feature included real news stories from states across the country but added fabricated quotes and other false information. The author lists his occupation as political satirist. ​

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PolitiFact - Comments about Texas’ castle doctrine law were satire, not from state rep

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

www.politifact.com

The sad thing is that it obscures the real issue that pushing duty to retreat back into castle doctrine and limiting castle doctrine to ones habitation is not a good thing. That’s the discussion we should be having, not the one over someone seizing on a satire.