Posted on 03/11/2014 3:26:58 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
LANSING, MI -- A group of two dozen activists rallied at the state Capitol on Tuesday, promising to launch a ballot campaign to repeal Michigan's "stand your ground" law if lawmakers fail to update it.
The Rev. Charles Williams II, Detroit head of the National Action Network, said that the group supports 2nd amendment and self-defense rights but believes Michigan's law goes too far and does not encourage residents to "choose peace" when the option is available.
"We're going to go to every community across the state of Michigan and we're going to get 'stand your ground' repealed right here in Michigan," said Williams. "Michigan will be the first state that will get rid of this ugly law that allows people to go around shooting each other. This is not the wild wild west."
The Michigan Self-Defense Act, approved with bipartisan support in 2006, provides legal protection to people who use deadly force when they "honestly and reasonably" believe they or another person are being threatened with death, severe injury or rape. There's no legal duty to retreat in those circumstances -- at home or out in public.
Tuesday's rally came on the heals of a similar but larger event in Florida, where the parents of Trayvon Martin joined a protest against that state's "stand your ground" law. Neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman shot the unarmed teen during an altercation in 2012 but was acquitted at trial.
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Two dozen activists? Please!
I’m sure if they are successful minorities will suffer the most.
choose peace” when the option is available.
And if it isn’t? guess you die in peace then.
“Michigan’s law goes too far and does not encourage residents to...”
Laws never “encourage” anything they mandate it at the point of a gun.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
George Zimmerman shot the unarmed teen.
Ah no, he shot a thug who was using his two arms to beat George Zimmermans head onto the sidewalk. He will no longer do that now to anyone else. Isn’t stand your ground great?
Let him try. He is just another idiot who thinks that people should not have the right to defend themselves against feral blacks.
“This is not the wild wild west.”
No, places most resembling the wild west are all black and Hispanic neighborhoods in DemocRat run cities. Some places are so bad, the police hesitate in going there.
Such well meaning people have not thought things through. In their world, a person walking down the street and who was approached by a person holding a knife would only have to hope he could run faster to escape the threat to his life. What about elderly women? Are they expected to outrun a rapist wearing the latest Nikes?
More liberal #WARONWOMEN and #WARONELDERLY and #WARONDISABLED.
These people are idiots. I “chose peace” and there was peace - until some thug came and threatened me.
The saddest thing about this.
Its a direct result of the surge of defensive shootings in Detroit. Apparently the reverend would rather give Eulogies at victim funerals that see poor downtrodden thugs killed as a result of their own actions.
...I suppose in the mind of these dangerous jokers...
Why, just look at Detroit. If only they could ban guns there, the price of houses would skyrocket to a dollar and a quarter!
“Choose a piece”
“Some places are so bad, the police hesitate in going there.”
Hesitate, hell. During the 1992 LA riots, the LAPD battlecry was this: Hop in your squads, coppers, and drive home.
Liberal big city cops consider their pensions of much greater importance than public safety.
Sure, sure...then when SYG is repealed, these same clowns will go after gun ownership. Oh, they'll still support the "right to hunt."
Two dozen activists, esp. from Sharpton’s phonebooth operation the National Action Network.
That works out to 35 difference degrees of mental illness plus con-artist criminal charges.
Can’t wait to see 4 dozens leftist wackos hold a rally. It will be declared “National Mental Illness Day”.
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