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Bloomberg: ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Don’t Belong in Civilized Society
politicker.com ^ | April 11, 2012 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 04/11/2012 1:31:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Mayor Michael Bloomberg went down to Washington D.C. earlier today to advocate for limits to “Stand Your Ground” laws, made famous the recent shooting of Trayvon Martin, which allow looser standards for the use of deadly force. Flanked by representatives of groups like the NAACP and National Urban League, he announced a new initiative to push states, particularly Florida, to reform their self-defense laws.

“These laws are not the kind of laws that a civilized society should have,” Mr. Bloomberg said at the event. “This has nothing to do with gun owners’ rights, nothing to do with the Second Amendment. Plain and simple, this is just trying to give people a license to murder.”

“No civilized society that I know of, outside of America, has laws that permit anybody to just decide someone shouldn’t be alive, pull out a gun, shoot them, and get away with it,” he later added.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; bloomberg; gungrabbers; rkba; trayvonmartin
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1 posted on 04/11/2012 1:31:24 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Really?? Neither do robbery or rape. So, until we reach social perfection....


2 posted on 04/11/2012 1:33:25 PM PDT by Clara Lou (ABO! ABO! ABO!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This man doesn’t know what he is talking about. It is bull shit.

““No civilized society that I know of, outside of America, has laws that permit anybody to just decide someone shouldn’t be alive, pull out a gun, shoot them, and get away with it,..””

We don’t have laws like this either.


3 posted on 04/11/2012 1:34:07 PM PDT by SatinDoll (No Foreign Nationals as our President!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bloomberg should lead by example and lose his security detail.


4 posted on 04/11/2012 1:34:56 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The United States of America, a banana republic since 1/21/2009)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“No civilized society that I know of, outside of America, has laws that permit anybody to just decide someone shouldn’t be alive, pull out a gun, shoot them, and get away with it,”

OK, this Bozo is dumber than I am. Sheesh!


5 posted on 04/11/2012 1:35:15 PM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Bloomberg: ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Don’t Belong in Civilized Society

Well, Bloomers....this Society is no longer Civilized....especially when NBPP is putting a bounty on a non-convicted man's head.

Bloomer's is such a pathetic, pandering hack.

6 posted on 04/11/2012 1:35:15 PM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Says a limousine liberal that has armed body guards the law says the public must obey or get shot.


7 posted on 04/11/2012 1:35:15 PM PDT by CodeToad (I'm so right-wing if I lifted my left leg I'd go into a spin.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Trayvon Martin is not the kind of person that a civilized society should have.


8 posted on 04/11/2012 1:35:30 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So, in his mind we have an obligation to just “take it” when we are being victimized by a criminal.

Liberals are SICK.


9 posted on 04/11/2012 1:38:26 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I am getting really tired of this claim.

SYG has NOTHING to do with the Zimmerman/Martin case.

If Zimmerman’s story is what happened, it was self-defense by the law as it stood before SYG.

If the story told by Martin’s supporters is true, SYG doesn’t protect Zimmerman.

Either way, SYG is just not relevant to this case.


10 posted on 04/11/2012 1:38:26 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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Until we can outlaw Democrats, us truly civilized folk NEED these laws.....
Again, the Left is up in arms because these laws let whitey fight back!


11 posted on 04/11/2012 1:38:55 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bloominidot don’t belong where he is either....three term mayor of a two term city


12 posted on 04/11/2012 1:42:39 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So, in a civilized society, people should be required to run away when attacked ?

Do these people realize how pathetic that sounds ? They are advocating putting all honest citizens at the mercy of criminals. If you can’t use ‘the great equalizer’ against someone bashing your head into the ground, when can you ?


13 posted on 04/11/2012 1:43:40 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.)
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To: SatinDoll
We don’t have laws like this either.

Well, Sharia Law will fix that.

14 posted on 04/11/2012 1:43:57 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So Bloombrain thinks we have a civilized society . . . it is because of morons like him who do not recognize the right and VIRTUE of self-defense that our society is no longer civilized.

I thought libtards believed in the self-esteem of the individual. How much self-worth can one accumulate when idiots in government like Bloomberg do not even believe that a person is worth enough to protect themselves from harm?

Abort to your heart’s content and do not protect yourself from harm . . . pure evil.


15 posted on 04/11/2012 1:44:41 PM PDT by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: Kellis91789
If you can’t use ‘the great equalizer’ against someone bashing your head into the ground, when can you ?

Well... that all depends on your race, color, creed, national origin, how rich you are, or how much political pull you have.

16 posted on 04/11/2012 1:47:35 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

rape, robbery and murder is okay?

but self defense is bad?


17 posted on 04/11/2012 1:48:17 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Sherman Logan

I agree 100%.

This has ZERO to do with SYG. It sure isn’t like Zimmerman was sitting in a coffee shop somewhere and Martin came up and cold-cocked him.

Zimmerman should have done what dispatch told him to do, at the very least, he NEVER should have left his truck armed.

Look - I could put a pistol under my coat, go into a biker bar, walk up to the biggest guy there and call him a queer.
Then, as he’s beating the livin crap out of me, I could put one through him.

That’s not SYG - something I DID helped precipitate the incident.

Lots of FReepers will beat me up on this, but IMHO Zimmerman isn’t exactly the brightest bulb in the pack, he went out loaded for bear, and got himself into EXACTLY the kind of situation that he shouldn’t have.

And it gives responsible gun owners a BAD NAME, and I am extremely pissed about that.


18 posted on 04/11/2012 1:49:32 PM PDT by djf (Obama - the "OJ verdict" of presidents!!)
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To: SatinDoll
This man doesn’t know what he is talking about. It is bull shit.

““No civilized society that I know of, outside of America, has laws that permit anybody to just decide someone shouldn’t be alive, pull out a gun, shoot them, and get away with it,..””

If that is really the case Bloomy, why don't you fire your whole police dept., or at the very least, your personal security people? Lead by example you worthless POS! It shouldn't be a problem...no guns allowed in NYC!

19 posted on 04/11/2012 1:49:53 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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20 posted on 04/11/2012 1:50:43 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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