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Anti-Gun Senator Shoots Intruder



State Senator R.C. Soles (D - NC)


Long time Anti-Gun Advocate State Senator R.C. Soles, 74, shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor City , N.C. about 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for the politician's home county said.

The intruder, Kyle Blackburn, was taken to a South Carolina hospital, but the injuries were not reported to be life-threatening, according to Rex Gore, district attorney for Columbus, Bladen andBrunswick counties..

The State Bureau of Investigation and Columbus County Sheriff's Department are investigating the shooting, Gore said. Soles, who was not arrested,declined to discuss the incident Sunday evening.

"I am not in a position to talk to you," Soles said by telephone. "I'm right in the middle of an investigation."

The Senator, who has made a career of being against gun ownership for the general public, didn't hesitate to defend himself with his own gun when he believed he was in immediate danger and he was the victim.

In typical hypocritical liberal fashion, the "Do as i say and not as i do" Anti-Gun Activist Lawmaker picked up his gun and took action in what apparently was a self-defense shooting.Why hypocritical you may ask? It is because his long legislative record shows that the actions that he took to protect his family, his own response to a dangerous life threatening situation, are actions that he feels ordinary citizens should not have if they were faced with an identical situation.

It has prompted some to ask if the Senator believes his life and personal safety is more valuable than yours or mine.

But, this is to be expected from those who believe they can run our lives, raise our kids, and protect our families better than we can.

how typical...do as I say...

Why on earth would anyone trust a senator with a gun?

His NRA grades, which are based on legislative pieces:

1998 - B
2000 - B+
2002 - B+
2004 - A
2006 - A
2008 - A

I don't think he was ever against guns...

That "news" report is also from 7 years ago lol

He is a Lib in North Carolina so they just pushed him through with those grades.

Summary of eRumor:

It’s been reported that R.C. Soles, a former anti-gun senator from North Carolina, shot an intruder in his home.

The Truth:

Former North Carolina State Sen. R.C. Soles shot an intruder at his North Carolina home in 2009, but the claim that Soles was an “anti-gun senator” doesn’t check out.

The shooting unfolded at R.C. Soles’ home in Tabor City, North Carolina, in August 2009. Soles told police that two former clients of his law firm were trespassing on his property, and that he shot one of the men in the leg as he tried to break Soles’ door down.

State investigators said that R.C. Soles had “acted unlawfully” in the shooting, and a grand jury agreed. A grand jury indicted Soles for assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. Soles pleaded guilty to the charge in February 2010 and paid a $1,000 fine for the offense.

Interestingly, that wasn’t Soles’ only run-in with a former client of his law firm. He was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon in 2012 for allegedly hitting another former client in the face with a metal walking cane, but he was found not guilty in that case.

The idea that an anti-gun senator had shot an intruder started with a 2011 post on a Field & Stream community page. The commenter said that Soles, a Democrat and the longest serving North Carolina senator at the time, acted hypocritically because he had “made a career of being against gun ownership” and then used a gun in his own defense:

The Senator, who has made a career of being against gun ownership for the general public, didn’t hesitate to defend himself with his own gun when he believed he was in immediate danger and he was the victim. In typical hypocritical liberal fashion, the “Do as I say and not as I do” Anti-Gun Activist Lawmaker picked up his gun and took action in what apparently was a self-defense shooting. Why hypocritical you may ask? It is because his long legislative record shows that the actions that he took to protect his family, his own response to a dangerous life threatening situation, are actions that he feels ordinary citizens should not have if they were faced with an identical situation. It has prompted some to ask if the Senator believes his life and personal safety is more valuable than yours or mine. But, this is to be expected from those who believe they can run our lives, raise our kids, and protect our families better than we can.

The post is wrong on several fronts. First, R.C. Soles himself admitted in pleading guilty that he had not “acted in self defense.” Second, Soles hadn’t “made a career of being against gun ownership” before the shooting, either.

The National Rifle Association gave Soles just one rating below a B+ for his gun-friendly views in the North Carolina State Senate from 1996-2008, according to VoteSmart.org.

Grass Roots North Carolina, a non-profit dedicated to gun rights, gave R.C. Soles a lower favorability rating on gun rights between 1996 and 2008. That group rated Soles’ support of pro-gun legislation at 80%, 63%, 63%, 20%, 64% and 68%. So, it’s clear that Soles’ rating was from a local pro-gun group was lower than the NRA’s rating — but it’s not accurate to say that Soles had “made a career” of being against gun ownership based on his record, as has been claimed.

Rumors about the so-called anti-gun senator who shot an intruder have cropped up a number of times since 2009. In 2013, the original Field & Stream post appeared on a FOX News community blog as a “flash back,” and that rekindled the story. In 2015, the story was re-reported on a blog site called Wizbang. That report made it appear that the tale of an anti-gun senator who shot an intruder was a new one, and the report repeated outdated and incorrect claims about the situation.

So, although R.C. Soles did shoot an intruder back in 2009, we’re calling the claim that an anti-gun senator shot an intruder “mostly fiction.” Soles voting record just doesn’t support the claim that he was an “anti-gun senator.”

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Damn those facts

false alarm...

Did you bother reading the thread to figure out the initial post was wrong?

Prepare yourself Vambo, the libs remained silent at all your other common sense posts on guns but now they smell blood on this post.

No.

I'm as pro gun as anyone on this board is.

However, using an incident from 2009 that has been proven wrong considering he got high grades from the NRA itself does nothing to promote the rights of people to have guns. It doesn't promote honesty either.

I believe if you're really pro gun, using honest discussion is the way to promote it. Not resort to the exact same tactics you claim liberals use.

This thread is hilarious.

Yep I screwed up on this one, I deserve the the crap.

If it makes you feel any better, you're a much better troll in the smackshack

You're good bro. The majority of us has posted a link that was outdated or ended up being inaccurate. It happens.

No harm, no foul. It was an honest mistake. We're all human.

Thanks I'm striving to be a TROLL in all forums like you...someday perhaps!