Posted on 03/26/2014 5:51:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ever since George Zimmerman gunned down Trayvon Martin in his Sanford, Fla., gated community, it’s become an article of faith that the rash of lethal shootings in public places—from the Florida moviegoer who was killed after a texting and popcorn-throwing incident to Jordan Davis, shot in his car at a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station to last week’s lethal shooting in an Arizona Walmart—is attributable to the “stand your ground” laws enacted over the past decade in 26 states across the country. Aggressive human interaction, post-Trayvon, now follows a painfully familiar pattern: An altercation occurs. Someone says he feared for his life. An unarmed victim (often young, black, and male) is shot and killed. The headlines either explicitly or implicitly invoke “stand your ground.”
Last week, Kriston Charles Belinte Chee, an unarmed man, got into a fight with Cyle Wayne Quadlin at a Walmart in suburban Arizona. Quadlin opened fire midargument and killed Chee. Officers decided not to charge Quadlin because, they concluded, the killing was in self-defense. According to the police spokesman, “Mr. Quadlin was losing the fight and indicated he ‘was in fear for his life.’” Just a week earlier, a jury in Jacksonville, Fla., found Michael Dunn guilty on four counts of attempted murder but did not convict him on the most serious charge of first-degree murder, in the death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Dunn shot and killed Davis, also unarmed, because the music coming from his car was too loud. Dunn claimed he saw something like a gun in the vehicle, and that was apparently enough for some members of the jury to conclude that Dunn hadn’t committed first-degree murder.
Given all this, it’s not unreasonable to argue that, in America, you can be shot and killed, without consequences for the shooter....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
George Zimmerman had done all of the “retreating” possible, when he was on his back with Trayvon on top of him, bashing his head into the sidewalk.
Slate, lol.
That’s great.
I don’t know whether it’s a measure of our societal balkanization, or the supercilious hubris of the mainstream-ish media, that someone could write something so manifestly asinine and then have it published.
...looks like Debbie blabbermouth Wasserman-test Schultz’ long-lost twin...
Yep.
Don’t start nothin’, won’t be nothin’...
two pees in a pod!
The older I get, the more I become convinced counter-factual abuse of the first amendment, such as Dahlia has perpetrated, should be legally actionable.
It's extremely difficult to retreat when you are pinned to the ground by one of Holder's People whacked out on Purple Drank and determined to beat you to death.
I know I am going to take heavy incoming for this, but I just gotta say it.
See, even a dogface Army puke can learn from a jarhead Marine. (just jokin, heh heh heh).
Hang in there 2ndDiv.
[pinkie in the air, sipping from a dainty tea cup] I was an intelligence analyst. LOL
More panty-waist whining.
She must be a rich person.
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