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 ...
Did you know that my namesake division had Marine regiments aboard during World War I and actually had Marine commanding generals, even though it was an Army division?
The LIE continues.
Stupid headline...even stupider content I think the author of this just loves stupid.
Yet another ego-driven, arrogant, haughty foreigner telling us how to run the country.
Canada had a great big military as recently as World War II and was instrumental in winning that fight. By the war’s end, over 1 million citizens would serve in military uniform (out of a prewar population of 11 million) and Canada would possess the fourth-largest air force and third-largest naval surface fleet in the world. Around 41% of Canadian males 18–45 served in the military (25% of Quebec males, 42–48% for other provinces) during 1939–45.
Yes, actually, that is unreasonable by definition inasmuch as it is an entirely false representation of the circumstances cited. You can be shot and killed for physically attacking someone, yes, with no consequences for the shooter, as it should be.
It never seems to occur to liberal gun prohibitionists that a presumed requirement to retreat works both ways. If it applied to Zimmerman, it also applied to the aggressor St. Trayvon, who very obviously did not "value" retreat.
Shorn of its legalistic pretensions, Dahlia's case is simply that physical violence is justified on the part of protected classes and that those in "oppressing" classes have no right to self-defense. She can hyperventilate all she wants, but that isn't how it's going to be.
No wonder Doug hated him.
FMCDH(BITS)
If every Jew in Hitler's Germany had a gun, 20 rounds AND the will to use it, Hitler would be a minor footnote in history.
Instead, 6 million Jews and 7 million non Jews were *tortured and slaughtered* by Hitler. And something like 60 million people worldwide died as a direct result of a war that Hitler was largely responsible for.
A Jew that thinks people should be disarmed is the true definition of insanity.
General George S. Patton on American strategery
Ah crap! Now I have to get my spare keyboard out!
FMCDH(BITS)
Before Americans valued the concept of retreat they used to value the concept of protecting their lives and property. I have to be honest that I once valued the concept of retreat, but I learned differently from my wife’s grandfather some 30 years ago. He was a caring and loving man. He wasn’t heavy handed in his lessons. Looking back on it today, I realize he wanted me to correctly care for his precious grand daughter. And I do.
I have to state that deicent people have retreated enough in this country.
The quicker we remove these liberals from the gene pool, the better!
The Normandy landing plan included as much as 70% casualties as acceptable losses as long as the beachhead was taken. Fortunately the killed and wounded came to something closer to 20% but they most definitely weren’t honoring the concept of retreat.
Question. How exactly does a guy retreat when he’s on the ground getting beaten? Never mind how. Where?
Maybe we are just fed up with all the vermin and much as that well known movie scene we are collectively sticking our heads out the window and yelling “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore! In California being popped for carrying a concealed weapon, if your not a felon, is generally a misdemeanor, so if I have to go somewhere iffy ( if all my guns and ammo hadn’t fallen into that bedamned mine shaft)I would carry an inexpensive Makarov in .380 and be safe.
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