Under Obama, This Woman Would Be a Criminal

Hi all! I'm not really going to do any blogs on the conventions, at least at this point. I may say something in a month or so when we see the poll bounce and how the next 3-5 weeks trend. Historically, the needle moves to the right as the election approaches....we'll see how that holds (it actually was before Obama received a bounce after the Dem convention.) So far as the last few weeks, I like McCain's pick of Sarah Palin. She literally was the most powerful GOP member at the furthest geographical point from Washington DC....hard to call her any sort of 'DC Insider.' Also, the more I see the more I relate to. Life Member of the NRA, attended multiple colleges, strong independent woman with her own opinion (gee, I think I married one!) She sure beats the heck out of a guy spouting the word 'CHANGE' every 5 words then asking a 35+ year career politician to be his running mate. No thanks.

And now, the point of my headline....

This article appeared today on Foxnews.com (far be it for CNN or MSNBC showing people defending themselves) and illustrates how misguided Obama is, especially for someone that claimed to be a Constitutional Law expert:

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Texas Woman Kills Home Intruder With His Own Gun
Associated Press
Thursday, September 04, 2008

BLUE MOUND, Texas — When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn't think twice.

The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had been pointed at her face early Wednesday, starting a struggle that ended with one intruder killed with his own weapon and another in the hospital.

"I wasn't going to let them get to my babies," she said, recalling the moment when she pushed up the muzzle of the shotgun, pointing it away from her children's rooms.

Although the intruders told her to keep quiet, she screamed for her husband. She told her 12-year-old son, who was awakened by the sound of the shattering glass front door, to get his 5-year-old sister and hide.

"It was like a horror movie," her husband, 32-year-old Keith Hoehn, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "I thought I was a dead man. We're fighting for our lives."

With Kellie Hoehn clinging to the weapon's muzzle, her husband tackled the man who held the shotgun. She knocked the intruder in the head with a jar candle, giving her husband a chance to wrest the shotgun.

By then the tussle had spilled out onto the front lawn. Keith Hoehn shot one of the men who had a pistol, police said. Wounded, that man ran away.

Then the intruder who initially had the shotgun charged Keith Hoehn.

Kellie Hoehn told The Dallas Morning News that she screamed at her husband, "Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him."

Her husband fired the shotgun and the man fell to the ground. Then the shot man lunged a second time.

"Well, I shot him again, and I guess that was it," Keith Hoehn said.

Dakota Scott Benoit, 20, of Richland Hills, was pronounced dead at a hospital. John Garland Pierson, 25, of Haltom City, was in critical condition and in police custody at the hospital.
"I am not happy that someone is dead," Kellie Hoehn said. "But I am glad that my family is alive."

Police said Pierson was shot in the left arm and the bullet pierced his diaphragm and other organs but his condition was improving. He will face charges of burglary of habitation with intent to commit another felony, police said.

Investigators say the couple were just defending their family and probably won't be charged.

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First off, this woman was lucky enough to get a shotgun away from a home invader and savvy enough to shoot it at TWO people, one of whom is still armed. There is NOTHING more dangerous than someone defending their own family and home, and even in Texas where law-abiding gun ownership is popular (let's face it, the reputation in Texas is that everyone is packing....not true, but a heckuva reputation to have and USUALLY makes idiot criminals like this think twice.

My problem with the left in general, but MORESO OBAMA, is that under certain liberal laws that HOPEFULLY would never be passed, this woman could be prosecuted and taken away from the children she was protecting. Just for Obama, the list below shows his anti-second amendment standing and it's even more insulting he blatantly lied when the Heller case was decided by the Supreme Court about 6 weeks ago.

The following can be found at http://www.nra-ila.org/obama/

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1. FACT: Barack Obama voted against the confirmation of 2 of the 5 Justices that affirmed an individual right to keep and bear arms.

2. FACT: Barack Obama voted to allow reckless lawsuits designed to bankrupt the firearms industry.

3. FACT: Barack Obama wants to re-impose the failed and discredited Clinton Gun Ban.

4. FACT: Barack Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.

5. FACT: Barack Obama has endorsed a 500% increase in the federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition.

6. FACT: Barack Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership.

7. FACT: Barack Obama supports local gun bans in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other cities.

8. FACT: Barack Obama voted to uphold local gun bans and the criminal prosecution of people who use firearms in self-defense.

9. FACT: Barack Obama supports gun owner licensing and gun registration.

10. FACT: Barack Obama refused to sign a friend-of-the-court Brief in support of individual Second Amendment rights in the Heller case.

11. FACT: Barack Obama opposes Right to Carry laws.

12. FACT: Barack Obama was a member of the Board of Directors of the Joyce Foundation, the leading source of funds for anti-gun organizations and "research."

13. FACT: Barack Obama supported a proposal to ban gun stores within 5 miles of a school or park, which would eliminate almost every gun store in America.

14. FACT: Barack Obama voted not to notify gun owners when the state of Illinois did records searches on them.

15. FACT: Barack Obama voted against a measure to lower the Firearms Owners Identification card age minimum from 21 to 18, a measure designed to assist young people in the military.

16. FACT: Barack Obama favors a ban on standard capacity magazines.

17. FACT: Barack Obama supports mandatory micro-stamping.

18. FACT: Barack Obama supports mandatory waiting periods.

19. FACT: Barack Obama supports repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment, which prohibits information on gun traces collected by the BATFE from being used in reckless lawsuits against firearm dealers and manufacturers.

20. FACT: Barack Obama supports one-gun-a-month handgun purchase restrictions.

21. FACT: Barack Obama supports a ban on inexpensive handguns.

22. FACT: Barack Obama supports a ban on the resale of police issued firearms, even if the money is going to police departments for replacement equipment.

23. FACT: Barack Obama supports mandatory firearm training requirements for all gun owners and a ban on gun ownership for persons under the age of 21.

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The last I heard, right to bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed upon. A few of those laws could be defined as infringement. Some of the laws are convoluted methods the liberals are using to get ammunition banned (i.e. sure you can have a firearm, but good luck getting ammo) or pricing them out of the market (which is why microstamping is so popular with liberals.)

Now, if NUMBER 8 on the aforementioned list became reality, the police conversation with Mrs. Hoehn would have went like this:

"Congratulations Mrs. Koehn! You defended your children and home from criminal home invaders. And Mr. Koehn, you helped! Now, you BOTH HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT...."

Luckily, this did occur in Texas, and luckily that law is not in place. Even if the police did charge them NO JURY in the state of Texas would convict....be happy it didn't happen in California or Massachusetts though.

Just something to consider with your vote this year. Someone that is supposedly well schooled in Constitutional Law selects different portions of the Bill of Rights to ignore? Not to mention flat out ignoring the fact that the 38 states that allow conceal & carry have LESS gun crime than the states/cities with liberal gun laws (DC, Chicago, Boston...the more liberal/repressive the gun laws, the more emboldened the crimal.)

NOBAMA.