Texas: Security guard shoots, kills man outside club: "A man is dead after an altercation with a gentlemen's club security guard northwest Houston. The shooting happened just after 1 a.m. on Antoine near Hempstead Road at the Casanova Men's Club. Witnesses said it started when the security guard refused to let in two men who appeared to have been drinking. When the son tried to fight him, the guard sprayed them with pepper spray. The father came over to the guard and started to threaten him, witnesses said. Then the father left, but returned with a gun. The witness said the security guard pulled out his gun and ordered the man to drop his, and when he didn't, the guard fired two shots. Witnesses said he was forced to shoot to protect himself. The victim died at the scene, and Houston police spent the morning interviewing witnesses. Houston police said the guard will not likely face charges, but the case will be referred to the Harris County District Attorney's Office."


Texas: Clerk, Suspect Shot During Robbery: "A clerk traded shots with two men during a robbery at a northwest Harris County convenience store late Monday, KPRC Local 2 reported. Harris County sheriff's deputies said the men held up the clerk at the Phillips 66 station on Veteran's Memorial Drive near West Road at about 11:25 a.m. The men opened fire on the clerk, who was working by himself, investigators said. Deputies said the clerk pulled out a gun and fired back, wounding one of the men several times. The clerk suffered one gunshot wound and was taken to Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital for treatment. He is expected to be OK. The wounded suspect was taken to Ben Taub Hospital in critical condition. Investigators said the second man got away."


Texas homeowner shoots, kills burglary suspect: "Police said a homeowner shot and killed a burglary suspect inside a Northeast Side home this morning. The 18-year-old male suspect was shot about 2:30 a.m. in the 5800 block of Midcrown after a male homeowner noticed the youth inside the man's house. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity has not been released this morning".


It's About The Second Amendment And Nothing Else: "Levy claims that our right to have firearms locked in our cars in a parking lot is not about the Second Amendment but about the mythical right of corporations to usurp the Constitution and ban guns. But Levy didn't pull it off because we can see the truth. And the price he's asking us to pay for permission to do business with an anti-gun corporation could mean losing our lives - and that price is as clear as the sky is blue. The Legislature passed, and Gov. Charlie Crist signed, a law to preserve the self-defense rights of law-abiding men and women in public parking lots. It reaffirms existing rights that have been jeopardized by politically motivated corporate policies. Big business fought this measure, feigning corporate "private property rights" - a baseless argument considering that business consents to laws that limit property rights. Corporations must abide by civil rights laws, zoning laws, safety inspections and fire codes among others. Laws even dictate the number, size and placement of parking places and mandate space for shopping cart storage in publicly accessible parking lots."