[Mouton]

There is a full court press on here in Florida to remove the Stand Your Ground law. Yesterday I had a long day arguing by e mail with an editor about his editorial to do that. He said murders soared after the law was passed. When I pointed out gun crime was down 2% in Florida last year and violent crime in general was down since the 90s when concealed carry was passed, he said it was irrelevant because national crime has been going down too. My final comment was don't hide behind some tangential issue, if you want guns banned say so. I got no comment on that one and we ceased our written debate.

Today the letters to editor all support removing the law so I guess one cannot argue with one with more ink then they have and expect to be heard.

[Chewbarkah]

” full court press on here in Florida to remove the Stand Your Ground law.”

Exactly, and it started well before the verdict. I heard a discussion of this case on NPR by an anti-SYG activist (actually two of them, the host and the guest) on the first day of the trail. No need for evidence, no need to distinguish between trying to use a SYG defense and succeeding — SYG was GUILTY. Guilty verdicts on the attempted murder charges make it clear that the jury did not think SYG applied and the law “worked”. First Degree murder was another Corey overcharge — the woman either can’t understand the law or is pathologically dishonest in her strategy. Maybe she wants to stir up riots and mayhem to build her business. She needs to go.

The rabble-rousers’ logic in the Dunn case makes me wonder how they feel about the classic “alibi defense”. Some defendants try to use fake alibis, the jury doesn’t buy them, and the defendants are convicted. Therefore “alibi defenses” should be illegal.