State lawmakers say as it reads right now, prosecutors would have a tough time pressing charges against the shooter if the Trayvon Martin case happened in Louisiana.
Good...thats the way it should be.
Some punk gets wasted and all of a sudden we can’t have that? The message to send is it COULD damn well happen again and again until the savages slink away.
When there were no organized police, the PEOPLE WERE THE POLICE.
Somebody said it before, this has nothing to do SYG. This is a disparity of force case. Trayvon Martin used force against another person that would have caused serious physical injury or death. George Zimmerman used the APPROPRIATE amount of force to resolve the situation.
Most people do not die from gunshot wounds in the US. Martin did, unfortunately, but adult decisions have adult consequences. He, most likely because of his culture, refused to do the APPROPRIATE thing, as in summoning the police himself, to check out this stranger following him. He hid and ambushed Zimmerman and paid with this life.
This kneejerk, legislative activism will hurt ALL lawabiding gunowners who have a vested, personal interest in defense of self and others.
The assertion that Florida law allows shooting whenever someone believes it to be necessary is a flat-out lie. The actual law of Florida is that “a person is justified in the use of deadly force” if “(1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony” (Florida Statutes, Section 776.012).
The second part of the law provides special provisions for self-defense against violent home invaders or carjackers. Neither of those is relevant to the Zimmerman case.
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Nifongs on parade.
The prosecutors have always been the problem.
Perhaps we should have a PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR PROSECUTORS who bring this cases in order to bring clarity to there beady little government minded pensions.
Repealing the various stand your ground laws... isn’t that what Team Skittles and the Travyon Martin International Road show are really all about?
AKA "Da Gang Banga Car Jacka Thuggin' Fo Hoes Protection Act."
Ain't none, the thug protectors can shove their little "Trayvon Bill" up where the sun don't shine.
Nuff said.