Gualtieri said the shooting is a “clear example” of Florida’s “stand your ground” law. [More]
Clear it up for me because I’m not seeing it. What I AM seeing is reckless endangerment/culpable negligence.
This looks like stupidity all the way around, from the pool guy who didn’t announce himself and especially from the idiot firing blindly with no regard to what was around and behind the general area of where he presumed his “target” to be. If I lived anywhere around that moron I’d be looking for bullet holes in my house and car and he’d be hearing from me in no uncertain terms about endangering my family.
[Via Steve T]
Florida’s law protects the behavior of a “reasonable” person who is faced with the decision of whether or not to respond to deadly force with deadly force.
You’d be hard pressed to find a reasonable person who’d think that the guy cleaning a swimming pool presented such a threat of deadly force.
But what we are seeing is a surplus of prosecutors who will drop a case if there is even the slightest chance of a “stand your ground” defense, even if the possible defendant has not raised the issue.
Just another example of political hacks trying to disparage a law they don’t agree with.