Tag: Stand Your Ground

CBS Doesn’t Screw Up SYG Report!

Prosecutors today cleared Payne, based on Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, saying the State would not be able to overcome her claim that she was in fear of great bodily harm. [More]

Jeez, listen to the family and you’d never know he wasn’t anything but a saintly victim “tragically taken from us as the result of a senseless act of violence.”

Don’t get in arguments over stupid stuff. Walk away if you can.

Ah, I think I see why CBS was supportive of the shoot this time:

… he allegedly hurled the N-word at her …

[Via Michael G]

The Answer May Also Be ‘Yes’

Do Trans People Have “Stand Your Ground” Rights? Wyoming’s Answer May Be “No.” [More]

“May be” or “is”?

That’s what we have trials for.

Why do I have the feeling we’re not getting the whole story here?

Maybe because phrases like “people disproportionately targeted for harassment and violence” misdirect on who’s doing the abuse, something the gun prohibitionists don’t seem to want to point out.

[Via Michael G]

‘Stand Your Ground’ Recalls Nightmare Ordeal After Lawful Self-Defense

We know that something similar to what was forced on him, where we suddenly find ourselves having to defend ourselves against a previously unknown threat, could happen when we least expect it. And we know that police and prosecutors will often be personally and politically incentivized to treat us like criminals, and to interpret events to support their interests rather than ours. [More]

It could happen to you.

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]

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]