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Arkansas State Senator Is Wrong About Stand Your Ground Legislation. Here's Why.
Townhall ^ | March 12, 2019 | John R. Lott, Jr.

Posted on 03/16/2019 2:38:34 PM PDT by rogerantone1

Arkansas state Senator Stephanie Flowers captivated the international news media with her fiery attack on “Stand Your Ground” legislation, which guarantees the right to defend oneself without retreating as far as possible. Author Joyce Carol Oates took inspiration from Flowers’ comments, lauding her as “astonishing/courageous.” Actress Sarah Silverman hailed her as a “hero,” saying that her “face should be on money.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: arkansas; banglist; ccw; cprc

1 posted on 03/16/2019 2:38:34 PM PDT by rogerantone1
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To: rogerantone1

The woman is a total nut case; speaks totally from an emotional point of view; ignores facts...so what else is new?


2 posted on 03/16/2019 2:43:17 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: rogerantone1

The Pine Bluff police department—her district—is about 17 persons understaffed. Many unsolved murders and I believe for the year all are unsolved.


3 posted on 03/16/2019 2:50:18 PM PDT by Scram1 (an)
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To: rogerantone1

Stephanie Flowers’ advice to the victims of the Churchchrisf Massacre would be: “accept your fate and die.”

Its not just that the Left wants to take away our guns. To them, we have no right to defend ourselves where we have a lawful right to be. Period.

No wonder she’s opposed to people being able to stand their ground in the face of danger.

And that to her fellow liberals it made sense said a lot more about them than it did about their not getting the basic principle of self-defense right.

Screw fhem. Wherever I have a lawful right to be, I don’t need or want their permission to defend my life. Period.

Three cheers for Stand Your Ground.


4 posted on 03/16/2019 3:11:30 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: rogerantone1

When someone is in the act of attempting to or causing physical harm or death, the standard ought to be “I was in fear of my life”
whether you move two feet or run into 0 yards doesn’t serve you well as you are not in a position to defend yourself or loved ones.


5 posted on 03/16/2019 3:12:56 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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If you require Sen. Flowers’ permission to live, you don’t deserve to live in the first place.

Your right of self-defense is inalienable. Doesn’t get any clearer.


6 posted on 03/16/2019 3:18:04 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: rogerantone1

Flowers didn’t care about guns, she only wanted to hear herself cuss like a sailor.


7 posted on 03/16/2019 3:31:50 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: choctaw man

If a b*tsh*t crazy Leftist (is there another kind?) is speaking, it will always be from emotion...That’s all they got...

I knew I didn’t have to look...But I looked anyway...Umm-hmm, didn’t really need to look...


8 posted on 03/16/2019 3:45:07 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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If Democrats keep pushing their agenda on emotions, they may get an emotional response they didn’t think would happen.


9 posted on 03/16/2019 3:52:35 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: rogerantone1

Were not “Duty to flee” laws enacted to prevent free slaves from defending themselves against the boys in white sheets at their front door? flee out the back into the arms of...guess who!


10 posted on 03/16/2019 4:17:27 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: choctaw man

Sounds like a typical leftard then. No wonder they love her.


11 posted on 03/16/2019 4:31:51 PM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: rogerantone1

Basically you’re supposed to let whatever Democrat voter wants to gun you down to do it. That’s your response to Democrat voter violence.


12 posted on 03/16/2019 4:40:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: rogerantone1

Just more proof the leftists are as bat shat crazy as they come. Maggots squirming around where their brains should be - if they had any.


13 posted on 03/16/2019 7:39:57 PM PDT by Boomer (Islam and the democrats are the biggest threats to the American way of life.)
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