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Posted on 05/21/2017 10:46:22 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Since American citizens have the right to keep and bear arms (not just law enforcement officials, as gun control advocates maintain), it would seem to follow that they’re entitled to use their weapons when they are threatened.
More than a century ago, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that in Beard v. United States, where the first Justice Harlan wrote that the defendant, who had been convicted of manslaughter for killing a man in a violent dispute,
was not obliged to retreat, not to consider whether he could safely retreat, but was entitled to stand his ground, and meet any attack upon him with a deadly weapon, in such a way and with such force as, under all the circumstances, he, at the moment honestly believed, and had reasonable grounds to believe, were necessary to save his own life, or to protect himself from great bodily injury.
To codify that right and prevent people from being put on trial for reasonable, defensive gun use when a prosecutor thinks they might instead have retreated or fled, 24 states have enacted “stand your ground” statutes. Among them is North Carolina, but a recent case there shows that when prosecutors and judges want to convict a man for using his gun, the “stand your ground” law can be trampled upon.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I already addressed the issue earlier. Just have congress pass a law funding the $31/mo legal insurance you see advertised on Hannity. 100k concealed carry permitters packin’ and this place will be much safer. Trump can even negotiate the price down.
There are leftists and other anti-2nd Amendment traitors in DA offices and courts in many states.
$31/month??!?
Why didn’t his lawyers bring up the stand your ground statute? It would seem logical the defendant would have been instructed in it during his concealed carry classes. Or the arresting officers could have been asked why they felt the stand your ground statute did not apply here. Either way the law would have been put before the jury and used in defense summation. Bad lawyering I think.
“There are leftists and other anti-2nd Amendment traitors in DA offices and courts in many states.”
The Forbes article leaves much out.
http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20NCCO%2020160802477/STATE%20v.%20LEE
Hopefully the appeals court will overturn.
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“Gyrell Lee had been celebrating New Year’s Eve with his cousin Jamiel Walker”
No doubt two BRAIN SURGEONS in the making. Sorry guys, but next time, tell you’s mama to give you NORMAL names - or, again, things may not turn out well.
“Why didn’t his lawyers bring up the stand your ground statute? It would seem logical the defendant would have been instructed in it during his concealed carry classes. Or the arresting officers could have been asked why they felt the stand your ground statute did not apply here. Either way the law would have been put before the jury and used in defense summation. Bad lawyering I think.”
Best to read the ‘rest of the story’ ....
http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20NCCO%2020160802477/STATE%20v.%20LEE
““Gyrell Lee”
Gyrell Shavonta Lee
Yes, that's what the "bear" arms part means. It doesn't just mean the carrying around of arms in holsters or slung over the shoulder. And it's a right not an entitlement as the Amendment states.
The point wasn’t that you’d be convicted, it was that you could be charged. George Zimmarman is a great example. No question his use was self defense, but he was charged in order to appease a political constituency. “You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.”
Who felt the most threatened? The victim or the defendant?
“The point wasn’t that you’d be convicted, it was that you could be charged.”
Nor is this a case that should be brought up as a challenge on ‘stand your ground’.
The defendant grabbed his gun and went down the street with the purpose of ‘confronting’ the victim.
The left intends to take guns from non-violent, law-abiding citizens, and deliberately and intentionally leave them in the hands of violent criminals.
So they can waltz right in and take what is “rightfully” theirs from their “oppressors.”
“Gyrell Shavonta Lee”
Possibly named after some African king/queen?
Or mom dropped the tiles randomly on a Scrabble board?
5.56mm
Forbes—a disinformation and fake news purveyor.
All that is left to determine, in your instance, Puddle Princess, is if you are part of a DA's office, or not.
“All that is left to determine, in your instance, Puddle Princess, is if you are part of a DA’s office, or not. “
That was not my post. But I know that you are stalking me so no big deal.
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