Posted on 04/18/2012 2:34:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's understandable if unfortunate that the controversy surrounding the killing of Trayvon Martin has polarized the country along both racial and ideological lines. But there is one issue that should not have any racial connotations: the urgency of repealing "Stand Your Ground" laws.
And leave it to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to speak the blunt truth about why these laws are dangerous -- and why the National Rifle Association keeps pushing them anyway.
"In reality," Bloomberg said in a speech before the National Press Club last week, "the NRA's leaders weren't interested in public safety. They were interested in promoting a culture where people take the law into their own hands and face no consequences for it. Let's call that by its real name: vigilantism."
On guns, Bloomberg is strong and everyone else is feckless, to paraphrase the late columnist Murray Kempton.
OK, not exactly everyone else. Bloomberg's partners in the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns -- notably Boston's Mayor Tom Menino, the organization's co-chairman -- have filled the void left in state legislatures, Congress and the White House by moderates, liberals and many conservatives who ought to know better but are too petrified by the NRA to confront it. Mayors face the daily toll taken by gun laws dictated by gun lobbyists and are less easily intimidated....
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As the saying goes, God created men; Colonel Colt made them equal.
I’ve owned and used guns going on 60 years, never been “feckless” once.
-—Ms. Dionne needed filler material for today’s column and did the usual anti-gun blather-—
The thing I’ve noticed about the gun-grabbers aka Anti-Gun nuts is that they are really into “projection”. They imagine what they would do and project that image(s) onto the rest of the population. That leads me to think that since they really can’t control themselves then everyone else needs to be controlled, (for our own safety of course).
Everyone knows the Kenyan lizard is planning to confiscate our guns during an “unrestrained second term”
Thanks for reminding America doofus Dionne and limo lib dumberg...
Martin shouldn’t have been “feck’n” around in Zimmerman’s neighborhood at night when and where he had no reasonable business.
Everyone knows the Kenyan lizard is planning to confiscate our guns during an “unrestrained second term”
Thanks for reminding America doofus Dionne and limo lib dumberg...
They seem to believe that where there are guns, we see shootings in the street every single day.
I’m 48 years old and grew up in gun heavy Michigan and haven’t personally witnessed a single shooting in my whole life.
I agree. I personally have never seen a shooting either. Maybe these people have seen to many Hollywood movies? And in the case of Mayors and some of the police been involved with the “worse” side of the populace more than with the normal people that are everywhere living quiet and mostly peaceful lives?
There was a shooting in my little town 4 or 5 years ago that was a love triangle thing among people who don’t even live here. Before that it was nearly 30 years since there was a murder here.
Stand your ground, Castle Doctrine, etc etc are laws that really should NOT be needed in the first place. They are laws demanding that the state/government follow the law. Our constitution confirms and protects our right to defend our lives with deadly force as do most of the state constitutions. The problem has been the prosecutors and the POLICE are ignoring these rights and arresting and prosecuting innocent people. Even if the innocent ultimately win in court their lives are destroyed in the process.
The Zimmerman case is a perfect example of why we need MORE stand your ground laws not less. These laws also need to be STRONGER worded with teeth against abuse of power as we see in this case.
In the end this prosecutor should be disbarred and the state held accountable for the prosecuting of an innocent man where there was no probable cause to even arrest him.
The time for Immunity for police and prosecutors is over. At one time in our nations history these offices of the state could be trusted and needed the protection of immunity. Now they are often more dangerous than the thugs from which they are supposed to protect us. We must continue to level the playing field.
Only a faggot fairy would use the term “feckless”.
“We do not need statutes that encourage citizens to assume that feeling threatened is reason enough to shoot another human being.”
“I am living proof that people feeling threatened should not use a gun to protect themselves, and I would shout that from a rooftop for the world to hear....if my throat hadn’t been cut from ear to ear.”
Nicole Brown Simpson
This lickspittle has never heard of a gun-control scheme that he didn't like, and he's always happy to regurgitate the same discredited talking points.
Leftmedia lapdog. Ignore.
Funny isn’t it, that the locales most in favor of prohibiting private ownership of firearms all seem to have a disproportionatly high population of human trash. Conversely it seems that in communities with less human trash, the firearms there aren’t nearly such a menace. Why then don’t politicians advocate the criminalization of human trash? Could it be that said human trash are a large constituency of one of our major political parties? Jus askin.’
But screw those people.
They are RACIST to defend themselves from the Trayvon Martins of this country (black males age 16-36) who compose less than 3% of the US population, but commit 50% of the murders.
Agreed, however, the problem with the Zimmerman case in my opinion is the lack of a paper trail explaining why they determined that prosecuting him at the time of the incident was inappropriate. From what has been publicly released the charge of second degree murder is excessive and a charge of manslaughter is debatable requiring more evidence than I currently have.
I worry that due to the MSM trying to declare him guilty in a one-sided public trial, we will see riots after Zimmerman is acquitted or released due to inability to find an unbiased jury.
The minute one of Eric Holder's people gets his hands on a gun he has to commit a crime with it to see if it works.
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