Scrap irony

The AP has the story, per the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

The Tabor City sheriff says a North Carolina state senator shot one of two intruders at his home and hospital officials say the man is in fair condition. Multiple media outlets reported that Columbus County Sheriff Chris Batten said that 74-year-old Senator R.C. Soles of Tabor City shot Kyle Blackburn late Sunday afternoon.
Batten says the shooting occurred when two men went to the senator’s house and tried to kick in his front door. No charges have been filed.
The Democrat has been in the Senate 32 years.
The sheriff’s office said the State Bureau of Investigation was handling the case. A call to an agency spokeswoman was not immediately returned. There was no answer at a number listed for Soles’ home.
A spokeswoman at Loris Community Hospital in South Carolina said Monday that Blackburn was in fair condition.

Rico says what the AP story did not note was that the Senator is not known as a fan of firearms:

Long-time anti-gun advocate State Senator R.C. Soles, 74, shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor City, North Carolina, 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 his 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.

Rico says he'd be laughing if it was actually funny, but there are too many well-meaning do-gooders out there like Senator Soles... (And we should make sure that any anti-gun activist doesn't actually have one, too.)