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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
(5,444 posts)GUN SALES
librechik
(30,676 posts)to immunize themselves against lawsuits and promote gun sales. Now the law in 25+ states. Feel safer?
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)Thanks for the thread, EC.
EC
(12,287 posts)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
(82,849 posts)An atomized, mutually suspicious citizenry is a citizenry that can be more easily manipulated.
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)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
(25,592 posts)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.