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Arturas -> RE: Obama: 'If I Had A Son, He Would Look Like Trayvon' (3/23/2012 4:41:47 PM)
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However, I believe that the state of Florida is the demon here. Who passes a law that basically gives you the right to say, "I felt threatened for my life; therefore I killed another human being," and walk away scot free? That is disgusting. Every lawmaker who voted for that should be in jail for the murders committed in his/her name.
SNAKE OIL ALERT!
Hold up there Trigger, let's not jump off the deep end just because some members of the press have pre-judged this case, especially when there is no case yet. And lets not judge a law that has saved many innocent citizens in Florida just because the press has pre-judged the case. So let sanity prevail and lets inject some facts into the situation....
- First, the law does not let one kill another without cause.
- Second, the statistic below indicates lots of innocent people have been saved by this law.
- Third, if you were one of those who defended themselves and/or their family members from an attack then you would not agree with the quick and ill advised judgement made by the Left and many here.
According to statistics from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, before the law was enacted in 2005, there were about 13 justified killings each year by citizens from 2000 to 2005. Between 2006 and 2010, the average has risen to 36 justified killings each year.
"Stand Your Ground" says you need only to "reasonably believe" using force is necessary to protect yourself from great harm or death.
Notice the key word "justified". This means the 36 cases would have resulted in innocents being harmed by criminals if they had hesitated to defend themselves without protection of this law. Thirty six. A lot. Could have been you and your family. So, it's important to have such a law because without it people were being killed because they were afraid to use deadly force to defend themselves or their families. That is the reason for the law and it was needed and still is.
To be sure, one must justify why they "reasonably believed" using force was necessary so it clearly is not a blank check to kill fellow citizens as it has been made out to be in the Snake Oil press.
Finally, let's be honest, attacks by criminals on innocent citizens occur daily and this law protects those innocents and so it is a Very Good Thing to have such a law and one cannot jump to the conclusion the law must be done away with because of this one situation which has not even been fully investigated but clearly it is not such a slam dunk or the man would be in jail already. So, don't railroad a possibly innocent man and don't railroad a good law that has save so many innnocents from criminals. Such a determination is made only on Snake Oil so far.
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