Family loses home for protecting car from thief

BushWorld means working hard only to have someone take away what you toiled so relentlessly for.

A man in San Antonio, Texas, was tired of the crime in his neighborhood. He was sick of people breaking into cars and stealing them. Someone smashed his apartment window too.

Recently, when he saw someone trying to steal his car, he fired his shotgun at the thief. It's legal to use force to protect expensive personal possessions, and the police filed no charges against him.

But get this: The apartment evicted him and his family for the "crime" of owning a gun. Thing is, it's not illegal to own a gun. Not in any of the 50 states. Some types of guns may be illegal in some places in America, but not most shotguns.

You read that right: The family was evicted despite breaking no laws. If the law says you can protect your property with a weapon, then that's the law. The owner of the apartment building doesn't get to decide that a law doesn't apply.

I bet the man worked hard to buy a car and to afford an apartment. But he was forced to lose one to keep the other from being stolen. What's the point in even working when you can't even protect what you work for?

The apartment building owners gave the family only 3 days to leave - even though a much longer notice is required.

Where's the Republicans to defend the guy? They claim to be the country's great Second Amendment champions, so where are they?

They're hardly doing shit to defend him. Most of them are hiding behind the sacred banner of corporate "rights", which they believe trump personal rights. To them, property rights of building owners are limitless, while property rights of a renter protecting their own property from theft elicit a whiny sigh.

It's much like how Walt Disney World cries about a new Florida law that lets employees keep their guns in their cars when they park their cars at work. In the eyes of Disney World, everything revolves around who already has the most power. Corporate "rights" first, everyone else's rights last. The same smug mindset seems to have come to the fore again in this story.

(Source: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Man_kicked_out_of_apartment_after_shooting_at_crook.html)