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It seeems to me that you might ascribing personalty traits to someone that you do not know. Did you not read where I said that he could have held them at gunpoint? Suppose we decide that Horn is good natured old coot that had a hot-headed moment...does that not establish that this law, which he cited when shooting these guys, played a role in an avoidable killing and will again?
I stand my ground as to the content of my previous post.
Former NRA President: We Helped Draft Florida's "Stand Your Ground" Law
"There is no doubt about it. Marion Hammer, the NRA lobbyist here, former president of the NRA wrote the legislation and she would tell you so," Flemming told Media Matters.
Asked how he discovered that the NRA had co-written the legislation, Flemming stated: "She told me, I talked to her. I speak to Marion and certainly spoke to Sen. Peaden regularly. The observation is that they have their legislative priorities every year and that was one." He added, "All of the gun laws that come through the Florida legislature, she writes."
Hammer recalled that the law came about after an incident following Hurricane Ivan in 2004 in which 77-year-old James Workman shot an intruder who broke into his RV after the deadly storm. Months before the statute was passed, prosecutors declined to press charges against Workman, saying he had legally acted in self-defense.
"Yes, we helped," Hammer said. "Sen. Peaden and I had a conversation, he was outraged at what had happened and ... they had not decided whether to charge this man. He says, 'what are we going to do about it?' I said 'we can work on some legislation to deal with this issue.' It is not an uncommon problem."
She added, "he came to us, we helped draft it, he took it, he put it in the bill drafting, it came out of bill drafting, it came through the process, it passed."
The very fact that we need to enact legislation that legalizes self defense is a testament to just how far down the liberal crazy hole we've fallen.
In a more sane era, there was never a question or doubt that a person had the right to defend themselves from assailants and robbers, for the purpose of protecting one's person or property or family .. all three are just cause for action.
But today, to the liberal, we should all accept that criminals have a right to commit crimes against us without fear of life threatening response from the victim, and that we have no right to protect our persons and possessions unless the criminal announces ahead of time his intention to kill us while doing so .. then ... maybe ... it's OK ...but just to be safe, you might want to have the criminal put that in writing before you shoot him, otherwise it's just your word, and you cannot be trusted because you're a killer!
How the human mind can be twisted to think this way is one of the new mysteries of the ages.
She should have shot him in the leg but not kill him. The guy was harrassing her and then assaulted her but I probably would have left before it got that far.
People insist on profiling young black males because the majority of street crime in these troubled neighborhoods are being committed by young black males Given that FACT ... who are people supposed to be suspicious of ... old white ladies?
This woman should fry. The victim only brandished the knife. She was not justified to shoot until he stabbed her. The "Joe Biden" method of scaring away an intruder by shooting into the air fails..... again.
Trying to get laid should not be a death sentence.
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Originally Posted by GregW
Just as in the Zimmerman case there is only one person to tell the tale. Except in this case there are probably surveillance cameras and the divot the billet took out of the pavement.
addendum: Trying to rape should be a death sentence to be carried out immediately by the intended victim.
Addendum: Threatening to stab someone deserves the same penalty.
greg has it right. a knife is just as deadly as a gun especially at short range. she is completely in the right and no charges should be filed against her.
She should have shot him in the leg but not kill him. The guy was harrassing her and then assaulted her but I probably would have left before it got that far.
you get your adrenalin up and try to aim for a specific body part. and by the way, she did try to leave, reread the article
A warning shot? I don't know about TX, but in FL she would go to prison for a minimum of 20 years even if the bullet hit no one. Even if the bullet had only scrached his arm it's 25 years, and with taking a life, it's a life sentence.
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