Posted on 08/24/2006 2:21:29 PM PDT by KstoDC
The is a reason the Miami (leftist) Herald is nervious.
Since theives will know everyone ELSE is armed, Herald reporters will be easy pickings.
Does anyone know if the Herald building uses armed guards?
Do people pass through security?
Is there a security desk?
The Herald is spining a lie, this law has ALWAYS been thus in FL.
this law is really about TORT REFORM. Real, live, and lawyer crippling tort reform.
Colorful fellows.
Liberal anti gun cooks predicting blood in the streets...again! Now otherwise law abiding folks will go on a killing rampages, just because they're now allowed to, GASP, DEFEND THEMSELVES!!!
Just because they've been wrong every time before, is no reason we shouldn't listen to them now. Don't you people see how much smarter they are, and how much they care?
Grimm is a fraud who writes puff pieces like this to excite people. He is hardly relevant to the real world. Since the Herald is, like all other papers, becoming smaller and smaller and has fewer advertisers. It is only a matter of time for his unemployment.
``If a bad guy is defending himself against another bad guy, the law applies to him, too.''
Y'know, I'm not too sure I have a problem with this...until not too long ago (40 years or so), it was a defense to a murder charge in Texas that the decedent "needed killing".
The point is that the new law eliminates the ambulance chaser lawyers from filing a suit and winning.
"Police say," as if police in miami have had credibility since the 1980's. Between the drug dealing cops, drop guns at crime scenes, cover ups, proven lies in the courtroom, fradulent DUI records, the cops in miami have NOTHING to say.
I consider myself as strong on crime and do not see this as a gun control issue. It is about holding people responsible for their actions. I think this law prevents that.
Guessing that that is probably not the point of your question, I am a moderate on gun control issues. I have not problems with people owning guns and I do not have a problem with reasonable regulation.
not in the commission of a crime. Grim is just baiting us. The worst thing that can happen to a looser like Grim is to be ignored.
He is a classic mediot. forget him and he ceases to exist.
This example shows this is about tort lawyers.
In year one law school there is the tort example of the two hunters who accidentally shoot a third person. Nobody can tell if hunter a or b fired the fatal shot.
It is a liability example.
It is her as another BS liability example.
KstoDC registered 2006-8-24
I registered today so that I could post this article. I like to know what people on all sides of an issue are thinking.
So far, I think it has generated quite a bit of discussion. What is the problem?
Greasy criminal lawyer uses self-defense law to defend criminals, so leftie editor blames law-abiding gun owners. typical all around.
How does this law prevent holding people responsible for their actions? A jury can still decide if his claim of self-defense is legitimate. All the law did was remove the requirement that a person must cower and retreat in the face of an attack on their life. It has done nothing whatsoever with regard to the basic question of the threat itself.
The fact that both shooters were hoodlums is beside the point, IMO. There are probably some additional circumstances that should be considered as far as other crimes, etc. But the core question of self-defense against a lethal attack remains unchanged. The jury can hear the evidence and decide.
I guess "Double D" and "Rosie" would not have had the desired street cred effect.
A very good point. It will be interesting case to follow and to see what happens. I hope that is what happens. I want justice for Sherdavia.
So you think people should be arrested on the spot in the abscence of evidence of malice or for that matter, negligence?
We changed that?? Why????
In theory, if the police did their jobs, neither would legally carry a concealed weapon.
That "hail of bullets" phrase is so inaccurate and contrived.
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