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kpete

(72,014 posts) Thu Mar 22, 2012, 02:10 PM Mar 2012

Stand-your-ground Laws

NY TIMES EDITORIAL: “Stand Your Ground laws are abominations that should be repealed. One obvious flaw among many is that slain victims can never tell their side of the story — an undisputed fact in the tragic slaying of Trayvon Martin.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/opinion/shot-to-death-in-florida.html?_r=1

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Stand-your-ground Laws (Original Post) kpete Mar 2012 OP

So what happens when two criminals shoot it out in the streets... orwell Mar 2012 #1

Because the law doesn't cover being a criminal, doing criminal things.. X_Digger Mar 2012 #2

orwell

(7,775 posts)

1. So what happens when two criminals shoot it out in the streets...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2012, 02:26 PM

Mar 2012

...why can't the person who shoots last claim self-defense?

And what if an innocent bystander is killed? Is that just tough cookies?

After all it was just self defense.

I guess the term "dead men tell no tales" has a new meaning in Florida...

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)

2. Because the law doesn't cover being a criminal, doing criminal things..

Reply to orwell (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 22, 2012, 02:33 PM

Mar 2012

The media has over-simplified this law to the point of silliness.

http://law.onecle.com/florida/crimes/776.041.html

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