1 man died and Sweet was acquitted of murder. It was less than a month before the first gun control bill showed up in the Michigan state legislature. It resulted in a law creating the first "gun boards" and registration in the state.
Posted on 07/21/2013 7:32:49 AM PDT by marktwain
Totally different from the accounts that I have read as well.
What is really desired by those protesting is a “don't shoot blacks, no matter what” law.
She sure married a POS. What Effing prosecutor makes a case of this? Oh wait...it’s Florida.
Trying to reason with racebaiter reverends is like trying to negotiate with a rabid wolf, it goes nowhere, and they’re not going to listen anyway.
As long as rioting and racecard rules prevail, and work for them, they’ll keep using them.
The states with SYG laws need to stand THEIR ground and refuse to eradicate these laws because of community organizers are pitching tantrums.
Cowardly politicians issuing piecemeal concessions are blind to the incrementalism that is destroying our nation.
The states need to tell the reverends Jackson, Sharpton, Holder, and Obama to F-off, and leave the laws in place. There’s a reason the majority of states have these laws, and the right to self defense is as old as mankind, and the animal kingdom. It’s natural, it’s instinctive, and it’s right.
Trying to neuter our right to self defense in lieu of succeeding to disarm us is what despots and dictators do, not Americans.
I don’t imagine there is a person in America that wishes Zimmerman had not got out of that care more than Zimmerman himself. The events that followed happened, and we all know the results. He was railroaded by political pressure into a trial that should not have been, and STILL found not guilty based on the facts.
But the piglets of the left want to wallow in their bitterness as long as they can in an effort to reverse the verdict to their liking, not to get back at Zimmerman as much as winning the battle of division and strife.
Sounds like the rallies should be for justice for Mariisa Alexander, not Trayvon Martin.
When she fired the shot, his hands were supposedly up and the gun was supposedly pointed right at him. Use of deadly force - which is what a warning shot is - requires reasonable fear of imminent great bodily harm or death, which someone with their hands up does not present.
She didn't "stand her ground," she either assaulted him or attempted to murder him.
Appropriate use of overly attached girlfriend sir! I love it.
I question her story. In other articles, they said that despite the restraining order, which works both ways, she went to her husbands house.
He claims that he was holding one of his children (by a previous marriage) by his side when she pointed the gun at them, not the ceiling. He also claimed that his deposition was false, at the request of his wife, who said that if he lied she would not go to prison.
She also rejected a deal that would have reduced her sentence by 17 years. He expressed remorse that she would now be separated from their children for 20 years, and said he wished she had taken the deal.
This case gets murkier by the moment.
I hate you. ;-p
LOL, I felt I had no choice. :)
She has migraines and is crazy. /s
You should have used Alan Grayson.
Oh God... I forgot about that goon.
The Tampa Bay Times found that defendants claiming “stand your ground” are more successful if the victim is black. Seventy-three percent of those who killed a black person faced no penalty. Only 59 percent of those who killed a white person got off. <<
Self defense as an affirmative defense to homicide is one of those misunderstood legal terms. It literally means the defendant is claiming to be the victim of a crime. The deceased is never charged...LOL...if the claim is successful, that is where the law should go next. The victim in successfully argued SYG cases is still alive.
I like the idea of it’s either Stand Your Ground or Retreat From Evil...which law would be backed?
DK
Good post and I concur.
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