Stand Your Ground - The War on Guns

A Killer Walks Among Us!

Homeowner Confronts, Shoots Alleged Intruder Dead [More]

“Real men” Mark Maremont and Paul Overberg are just outraged!

[Via bondmen]

Flee Your Scene

“The very first defense anybody’s gonna think about is stand your ground,” Schiffer said. [More]

Not if police “are currently looking for the boyfriend, who left the scene after the shooting,” they won’t.

As for family dynamics, we could speculate, and we’d probably be right.

[Via Steve T]

This is CNN

CNN Tries and Fails – Again – to Make Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law Controversial [More]

So a 42-year-old with a violent criminal history threatens an armed 79-year-old with a chainsaw, who responds appropriately, and that’s reason to disparage”Stand Y0ur Ground”?

The only thing controversial is why anyone still watches CNN.

Tangentially-related UPDATE

Or that more people don’t sue…

[Via Michael G]

In the Kapu Tradition

Honolulu shooting leaves 4 dead, 2 injured … Police have not yet identified any of the victims or the two men who exchanged gunfire. [More]

Maybe because the Hawaii Free Press says they’re “Two Politically Connected Waianae Families“…?

In other Trouble in Paradise news, scroll down to “Stand your ground here and get 40 hours of lockup.”

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Honolulu: Man Stops and Kills Mass Shooter, and Is Promptly Arrested…for Murder [More]

Chief “Joe” sounds like he belongs under banana leaves at a luau.

[Via Roger J]

Suffering from PTMD

Hicks is seen being slammed into the ground before all three get up and she starts to walk in the opposite direction. Then she pulls a gun out of her bag and beings firing, eventually shooting her manager. [More]

Does that sound like “stand your ground” to you?

Or more like Pretty Thug Music Disorder?

[Via Curly Howard]

His Heart’s in the Right Place

“We’re patrolling the neighborhood. But we have guns because the Second Amendment says that if you have a license, you are allowed to carry one,” he said. [More]

That’s not what it says at all.

While it’s encouraging to see this, you can’t very well claim rights if you don’t understand them.

Still, I wouldn’t mind seeing the racist implications of Connecticut’s asinine “duty to retreat” exposed.

[Via Jess]

Slippery Ground

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]

A Better Ending

69-yr-old Florida woman says she warned home invader to ‘back off dude’, but he didn’t. Now, he’s dead. [More]

Fact: Every single gun ownership and “stand your ground” opponent would rather she and her partner had been slaughtered in their home than armed.

[Via bondmen]

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