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Related: About this forum"Stand Up to 'Stand Your Ground'" PSA - Re-enactment of Trayvon Martin Shooting - Chilling
The traditional presumption in the lawfrom the advent of the Hebrew Bible through the creation of Roman law, English common law, and American lawhas been that if you could spare human life, it was incumbent upon you to do so.
With Stand Your Ground (aka Shoot First) laws, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its partners in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have turned 3,000 years of jurisprudence on its head. Now you can provoke a fight, and if losing that fight, kill the person you attacked.
The NRAs laws represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation in the use of force in the public space, allowing individuals to kill when they merely fear great bodily harm (i.e., a fistfight, shoving match, etc.). The concept of responding with proportional force has been obliterated. Additionally, Stand Your Ground laws remove the duty to retreat from a conflict in public, allowing individuals to shoot and kill even when they could otherwise walk away safely from an altercation.
Please sign this petition calling on your state legislators to oppose Stand Your Ground laws.
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"Stand Up to 'Stand Your Ground'" PSA - Re-enactment of Trayvon Martin Shooting - Chilling (Original Post)
Unknown Beatle
Aug 2013
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gopiscrap
(23,673 posts)1. THis excellent fucking SYG supporters should be ashamed of themselves
onehandle
(51,122 posts)2. SYG fans are racists.
Fucking paranoid KKKreeps.
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)4. Damn Powerful
This captures it exactly
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)5. Great use of the audio