"Florida lawmakers urge overhaul of 'Stand Your Ground' law"

[applegrove]

Florida lawmakers urge overhaul of 'Stand Your Ground' law

By Tom Brown at Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/19/us-usa-florida-shooting-lawmakers-idUSBRE96I05020130719

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Smith and Thurston were joined at their news conference by Broward County State Attorney Michael Satz, who said he and other law enforcement officials supported calls for an urgent overhaul of the Stand Your Ground law.

"I think putting in the statute that you do not have the duty to retreat is a mistake. I think life is precious and before you do that you should do everything in your power not to do that and to retreat if you possibly can," Satz said.

"Before there was a common law duty that you had to retreat before you used deadly force," he added. "I just don't think you need the Stand Your Ground statute."

The Florida statute was adopted under former Republican Governor Jeb Bush. Many other states, acting with broad support from the National Rifle Association, have followed Florida's lead over the last seven years.


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[Boom Sound 416]

1. The governor never wanted this case

The long game was always the legislature

[valerief]

2. You mean the Florida lawmakers who passed the goddam law that Jebbie signed?

Those goddam lawmakers?

[SoCalDem]

3. Their tea party legislature will uphold the witness snuffing law

and there are not enough dems to thwart them.

[HockeyMom]

4. Smith is very pro active on this

He had a petition a few years ago which I signed; long before anyone head of Zimmerman, or Sandy Hook.

[mick063]

5. It won't be long

It won't be long until ALEC becomes the "whipping boy" for bad legislation. More and more eyes will start focusing on them.

Why?

Simple. Because they write bad legislation. It can't hold up to the test of time.

[Hoyt]

6. Yes, please change it. Another benefit, other than obvious, is it will reduce the demand for guns

if bigots can't shoot just because they fear for their worthless lives or take courses on what to tell police after they shoot an innocent kid.

The republicans knew exactly what they were doing when they enacted that law with help of NRA and bigots everywhere.