What was lacking in the

[EC]

Self-Defense laws that the Stand your ground had to be passed? Maybe proving it was actually self-defense is a good thing? You know like arresting and gathering evidence? The Stand Your Ground seems to have just eliminated the need to prove self-defense. What did I miss?

[The Blue Flower]

1. What was lacking

GUN SALES

[librechik]

3. +100 Walmart, Koch Bros and NRA paid for this ALEC boondoggle

to immunize themselves against lawsuits and promote gun sales. Now the law in 25+ states. Feel safer?

[Uncle Joe]

2. An easy excuse to kill someone that you didn't like.

Thanks for the thread, EC.

[EC]

6. You're welcome.

I just see so many laws being passed, where an existing law already covered it. Like the law they tried to pass in Illinois that if an aborted fetus was alive it couldn't be allowed to die or be killed. Obama voted against it saying there was an existing law for this if it ever happened...it was called murder. Now the repubs cite this vote over and over as him voting for infanticide...so I am leery when they propose a law that is already a law.

[gratuitous]

4. Not enough hostility between citizens

An atomized, mutually suspicious citizenry is a citizenry that can be more easily manipulated.

[Life Long Dem]

5. What a way to get people to buy guns.

Ed last night asked whether the NRA lobbied to get this law passed just to sell guns. Who cares if you lose a few customers because of gunfire. The added demand will make up for this loss.

[RC]

7. Heavily arm the populace, so when it comes time to enforce Martial law in this country,

the police/military will have a good excuse to, not only crack down, but to bring in the heavy equipment to disrupt the coming civil disturbances that their paranoid "All Fear, All The Time" mind-set is driving this country to. How are these "Stand Your Ground" laws not forcing the country in that direction?

Look at all the civilian guns in the middle East countries and notice how many people that has protected. Not a hell of a lot. At least not from our military.

[EC]

8. Doesn't do them much good in Africa either.. n/t