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Self-Defense Under Attack
Reason ^ | April 25, 2012 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 04/25/2012 6:43:37 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 04/25/2012 6:43:43 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

In a nation of cowards, such as ours, self-defense is always under attack.


2 posted on 04/25/2012 6:46:26 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: neverdem

New Florida Law:

“All victims and potential victims are required under penalty of imprisonment, to be able to outrun any and all potential criminal adversaries.”


3 posted on 04/25/2012 6:46:47 PM PDT by G Larry (Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding)
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To: neverdem

They don’t come much stupider than Bloomberg.


4 posted on 04/25/2012 6:50:19 PM PDT by samtheman ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc)
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To: neverdem

Bottom line:

Because of anecdotal incidents which aren’t significant enough to skew any statistic, or are outright fabricated, the “Surrender First” crowd wants the CRIMINALS to dictate what YOUR actions will be in a confrontation, rather than giving YOU the power as a law abiding citizen who’s rights have been violated to decide the best way to respond to the threat.

They’re telling you, “Run, peasant”. Think any of their bodyguards would respond this way in the face of a threat?

Another “hug-a-thug” feel-good effort not grounded in reality. These people are evil.


5 posted on 04/25/2012 6:53:39 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH (Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
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To: FLAMING DEATH

What is our country coming to????


6 posted on 04/25/2012 7:01:58 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: neverdem
anti-self defense and anti-gun

Now there's two popular issues. Run hard on that, Dems!

7 posted on 04/25/2012 7:06:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: neverdem

The libs are always waiting for something to exploit, it doesn’t matter if it’s relevant or not.


8 posted on 04/25/2012 7:07:43 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: neverdem

The prosecution better have indisputable physical evidence negating Zimmerman’s accounting of the killing at this point.

As it now stands, it looks very much like a politically induced prosecution.

That would be a very bad thing right about now.....


9 posted on 04/25/2012 7:10:23 PM PDT by sarasmom ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xZsFe6dM3EY)
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To: sarasmom

Dershowitz said it may be a criminal act and advised the prosecutor to get an attorney.


10 posted on 04/25/2012 7:19:56 PM PDT by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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To: Ken H

‘it’ = the prosecution of Zimmerman


11 posted on 04/25/2012 7:21:18 PM PDT by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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To: wardaddy; Joe Brower; Cannoneer No. 4; Criminal Number 18F; Dan from Michigan; Eaker; Jeff Head; ...
The rats are so smart. They want to commit suicide again with the right to self defense!

Stand Your Ground makes sense

Making a Hash of the Second Amendment

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Scrounging around for Asian workers (Marion Barry again)

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12 posted on 04/25/2012 7:34:06 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem
In the meantime, it is worth noting that Florida's violent crime rate, which fell by 12 percent in the five years before the "stand your ground" law was enacted, fell by 23 percent in the five years afterward. Since 1987, when Florida adopted a nondiscretionary carry permit law that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence blames for "year after year of carnage," the state's violent crime rate has been cut nearly in half.

The beauty of being a Democrat is that you just don’t have to have any evidence to support your arguments. You just have to say if you do it my way things will be so much better. Or you say look at all of this suffering that would be avoided.

Of course the press just picks up their inflammatory rhetoric and prints it uncritically or if they print any arguments from the opposition it is printed near the end of the article in the most condescending fashion possible.

13 posted on 04/25/2012 7:42:26 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: neverdem

>>The law’s opponents note that the annual number of justifiable homicides in Florida (excluding police shootings) nearly tripled after the law was passed in 2005, from an average of 12 between 2000 and 2004 to an average of 35 between 2006 and 2010.

I would observe that some people just need shootin’. And in a state the size of Florida, it is probably larger than 35 a year.


14 posted on 04/25/2012 7:53:25 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Ken H
Dershowitz said it may be a criminal act and advised the prosecutor to get an attorney.

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Why? Is Holder going to prosecute?

15 posted on 04/25/2012 8:20:43 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: Ken H
Dershowitz said it may be a criminal act and advised the prosecutor to get an attorney.

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Why? Is Holder going to prosecute?

16 posted on 04/25/2012 8:20:49 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: FreedomPoster
It would be bad enough personally for me, if I ever had to employ lethal self-defense against another person.

I will if I have too, but it is not a situation I, or any other normal, decent person actively desires to experience.

I would be unable to come up with 15K cash to “bond” myself out of jail, if I was forced to kill someone in self defense.
Hense the SYG laws, that really were designed to reign in frivolous prosecutions.

EPIC FAIL..

17 posted on 04/25/2012 8:25:46 PM PDT by sarasmom ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xZsFe6dM3EY)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping!


18 posted on 04/25/2012 8:40:12 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: FLAMING DEATH

Well, certainly! You wouldn’t want to interfere with anyone’s legitimate career choice, would you? /sarcasm;)


19 posted on 04/25/2012 8:41:33 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: neverdem

Your Second Amendment right is under attack, as are other rights. The obvious plan by the bipartisan, political/regulator class is to create racial tensions through troublemaking policy pressures on police/courts and eventually cause incidents. Then, they’ll make their new legislative moves. Don’t take the bait, folks. The political people of today are afraid of you because of the economy and some of their other activities.


20 posted on 04/25/2012 9:08:10 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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