Gun rights-advocating local Fox reporter has told different versions of ‘home invasion’
In an instance of stunning journalistic transparency, WTTG-TV (Fox5) this week disclosed that chief investigative correspondent Emily Miller is a “proponent” for Second Amendment rights. An activist, in other words.
It’s a strange role for any investigative reporter, and its perils surface in a number of statements that Miller has made in recent years.
Being both a Second Amendment proponent and a local television personality has afforded Miller a great number of opportunities to explain the roots of her position on guns. On Feb. 10, for instance, the National Rifle Association, Maryland Shall Issue, the Associated Gun Clubs of Baltimore and the Maryland State Rifle and Pistol Association held a lobbying day in Annapolis to fight the state’s gun controls. Miller addressed the group: “I got started a few years ago in all this because I was a victim of a home invasion,” she said. “I was dog-sitting for friends and went out to walk the dog for a few minutes and came back and there was a man inside the house robbing it. And he left, he didn’t hurt me, thank God.”
The very words “home invasion” are enough to send pacifist souls scurrying for firearms. A special report of the Justice Department notes that “‘home invasion’ has been used broadly to describe any crime committed by an individual unlawfully entering a residence while someone is home. More narrowly, home invasion has been used to describe a situation where an offender forcibly enters an occupied residence with the specific intent of robbing or violently harming those inside.” Though definitions vary, the term delivers terror: “A home invasion to me in sort of the vernacular of the times means someone forcibly comes in while you’re inside,” says Jason Kalafat, a partner with the law firm Price Benowitz LLP. “You are actually in the danger zone.”
For a more vivid picture of just what happened to Miller, watch this “NRA All Access” video, which features a reenactment of the crime. It depicts a dog being walked, a burglar and a scary nighttime encounter. Miller narrates: “I was dog-sitting for a friend at their house. And I took the dog for a walk, and in the time that I was gone, a man — the police believed to be a drug addict — got into the house and started robbing it. So when I came back into the house, he was in there robbing. He took my wallet, but I was able to talk him out of the house without hurting me, thank God.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/02/26/gun-rights-advocating-local-fox-reporter-has-told-different-versions-of-home-invasion/
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