Monday, February 17, 2014

Stand your ground.



Music to loud?  Shoot a carload of teens. If one of them dies, too bad for him.)

Guy in a theater texting?  Shoot him.

You're a rookie cop and you barge into the wrong house without a search warrant and homeowner meets you with a gun in the middle of the night.  Shoot him.  Seven times.

Teenager going home after visiting friends crosses your yard.  Shoot him.  He looks like he’s going to kill you for sure. Oh yes, he was visiting those friends at a church service.

And so it goes.  Stand your ground is not only a joke, it is a deadly idea that needs to be wiped off the books in every state. And I can think of no state it needs to come off the ledger more than in Florida, because the juries there are not smart enough to understand the difference between true self defense and cold-blooded murder.

Stand your ground  is stupid.  It is the very mentality of the NRA's attack on reason.

Repeal it now.

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