Man, the author of the law wrote it, he was giving his legal opinion as the author, his statement was, that you cannot pursue someone and then claim stand your ground as a defense. Now look it up, hundreds of elected people agree with him. None of them agree with you.
I wouldn’t care if thousands of elected officials told me what the law they wrote was intended to do. It only matters what a court decides the actual law, as written states.
Thank God for that.
Are you advocating ignoring written law by popular acclaim and the whim of the author of those laws?
“.....that you cannot pursue someone and then claim stand your ground as a defense....”
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I don’t believe I’ve read anywhere that Zimmerman will claim “stand your ground” as a defense should any action be brought against him. That wouldn’t be likely to match the facts on the ground. It would be difficult for me to visualize “STANDING my ground” if I wasn’t standing but was instead laying on the ground screaming for help with someone on top of me pummeling me. In such a situation you have basically two choices—allow yourself to be beat (possibly to death) or defend yourself.
Me? I’d defend myself. You? I don’t care.
You don’t really believe what your writing. Zimmerman or his reps have never used the “stand your ground” defense. Most who have used it are anti-gun advocates.
So your reasoning is that if you follow somebody as part of your job and he turns around and beats you to death, you have no right to defend yourself in whatever way you can.
You ought to read the rap you are posting with an open mind. You should not try to represent that you understand either the intent or the letter of the law here.