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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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KEYWORDS: banglist; bloomberg; gungrabbers; rkba; trayvonmartin
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In other words, Mayor Bloomie is telling women who are about to be raped to remain calm, and enjoy the shtup... among other things. Schmuck.


21 posted on 04/11/2012 1:52:25 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Bloomberg: Once we can get people to accept they have no right to defend themselves, it will be easier for us to trample any remaining liberties they have
22 posted on 04/11/2012 1:53:10 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: SatinDoll

Short people got no . . .


23 posted on 04/11/2012 1:55:10 PM PDT by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That statement just proves he’s never been on the wrong end of an ass kicking.


24 posted on 04/11/2012 1:55:26 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Maverick68
Until we can outlaw Democrats, us truly civilized folk NEED these laws.....

Excellent observation, LOL!

25 posted on 04/11/2012 1:55:32 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Perhaps then Mr. Bloomberg should start today to increase the prison room by at least 200% nationwide. Then the courts need to start using that room and fill it with the predators. And prison should not be a vacation - forced labor with long marches, ala the bataan death marches. Treat them like we treat predatory animals. Make it so people don’t want to go back to prison.

Then after the government can assure the “civil” society that the predators have been removed can we start talking about removing “stand your ground” laws - but by then we won’t need them.

I just don’t see this happening. The courts have so little regard for society that they spring repeat offenders on low bail, then wonder why they go do crimes again.

Being on equal footing with the predators by carrying a gun is a hell of a lot cheaper to me than the thousands of dollars per year that my taxes would have to go up to keep them in prison.

Or maybe would could just fence off an entire state size area and just dump them in there - eventually there would be far fewer because they would kill each other - predators never change their ways after all.


26 posted on 04/11/2012 1:56:23 PM PDT by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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To: djf

I would bet a very large sum Zimmerman wished he’d left his gun at home.

It is certainly possible he could have been beaten to death if he hadn’t been armed, but it is at least as possible that the intensity of the attack owed something to the presence of the gun.

No matter who started the fight, once both were aware the gun was there it became literally a life and death struggle over who controlled it.

Zim himself says (or so it has been reported) that he “had to shoot” to keep Martin from getting the gun. Martin, if he’d survived would no doubt be telling us he had to fight to protect himself against an armed attacker.

Any law that more or less vindicates whoever happens to survive is problematic. And I don’t mean SYG, which just doesn’t apply, for either side.


27 posted on 04/11/2012 1:56:30 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Free ThinkerNY
‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Don’t Belong in Civilized Society

Laws to strengthen our Constitutional Rights don't belong in civilized society, but laws outlawing food seasonings are an absolute must. FU Mike Bloomberg and that nanny state disaster of a city you run


28 posted on 04/11/2012 1:56:38 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FUMB! You socialist SOB!


29 posted on 04/11/2012 1:56:46 PM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

But then, neither does Blooming Idiot, the mayor of the most uncivilized city in the USA after Detroit, of course.


30 posted on 04/11/2012 1:57:14 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So....give up your security detail, then, maybe we’ll talk....until then, go stick your bloomin’ stupid head where the sun don’t shine....oh, it’s already there?


31 posted on 04/11/2012 1:57:30 PM PDT by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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To: Clara Lou

I am sure that Mayor Bloomberg’s bodyguards will respect his wishes for them to retreat when faced with a threat to his life.


32 posted on 04/11/2012 1:57:49 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Imagine a society where no one is willing to stand their ground, and then calcualte how long “civilization” will remain.


33 posted on 04/11/2012 2:02:28 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Okay, Bloomberg....then fire your security staff. Immediately.


34 posted on 04/11/2012 2:04:04 PM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: theBuckwheat

Right we should have good gun laws like Weimar republic and USSR had.


35 posted on 04/11/2012 2:05:16 PM PDT by Bidimus1
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Imagine a society where no one is willing to stand their ground, and then calcualte how long “civilization” will remain.


36 posted on 04/11/2012 2:06:31 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
So Bloomberg thinks it is more “civilized” to give criminals free reign to rob, rape, assault, murder, etc., and give their law abiding victims no ability to resist?

Anyone who opposes Stand Your Ground has either not thought out the alternative or is utterly psychotic.

37 posted on 04/11/2012 2:06:31 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The candidate I vote for will NOT have a CARE after his name.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Limousine Liberal bump for later......
38 posted on 04/11/2012 2:07:49 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: djf
I ask anyone I don't know in the neighborhood who they are and what they are doing. I am usually armed. Does that mean I should get the crap beat out of me?

/johnny

39 posted on 04/11/2012 2:14:07 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Sherman Logan

Problem is, the race pimpers want to make this ALL ABOUT RACE.
The RKBA folks want to make this ALL ABOUT SELF DEFENSE.

Both sides are wrong, it’s somewhere in the middle.


40 posted on 04/11/2012 2:18:46 PM PDT by djf (Obama - the "OJ verdict" of presidents!!)
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