Posted on 07/16/2013 3:28:02 PM PDT by Red Steel
Laws like "Stand Your Ground" undermine innocent Americans' safety "by allowing - and perhaps encouraging - violent situations to escalate in public," Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday afternoon, three days after George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager spurred civil rights protests across the United States.
Delivering remarks to the NAACP's annual conference in Orlando - 30-something miles from where Zimmerman, claiming "self-defense," fatally shot Trayvon Martin - Holder acknowledged that "as passionate civil rights leaders, as engaged citizens and, most of all, as parents," his audience members remained "deeply - and rightly - concerned about this case." Calling the teen's death "tragic and unnecessary," he stressed that his department will consider "all available information" in determining whether to pursue federal criminal charges against Zimmerman.
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With all due respect, Mr. Holder (which frankly is no respect at all), for the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th time, STAND YOUR GROUND WAS NOT A FACTOR IN THIS CASE. Jesus Christ on a step ladder - you’d think the top attorney in the nation would at least understand the basic legal principles involved here.
So ?
Hey, Holder! Does Chicago have a SYG law? It must, given the high number of murders in the city. Oh, it doesn’t?
FUEH.
Eric Holder is an affirmative action imbecile. He has more than reached his Peter Principle.
Anyone that assaults me or mine is likely to find violence escalated to a level that they don’t care for.
The standard recommendation is to be careful, kind, polite, and have a plan to kill anyone you meet.
Mrs du Toit was taught to shoot by the wonderful Kim du Toit, an immigrant from South Africa.
She mentioned that it was liberating for her to carry a pistol every day. Rather than fearfully dashing from one ‘safe’ zone to another, she was safe as houses all day every day.
That may be why Holder et al. are opposed to it.
These people are so freakin clueless. It’s the innocent that are being attacked you idiots.
Do you think it's possible that he knows full well...and is lying about it?
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