Rep. Baxley, who cowrote the Florida "shoot first" legislation, claimed Barack Obama was a Moslem...
...and a "pretty scary" presidential candidate.
I found that nugget in this excellent column at Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2109975,00.html?iid=tsmodule
Can Trayvon Martin's Death Alter Our Race and Gun Cultures?
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2109975,00.html#ixzz1q5a8GgsO
Dennis Baxley, one of the Florida state representatives who co-authored stand-your-ground — and who also was one of the GOP pols who insisted in 2008 that Obama's "Muslim" background made him a "pretty scary" presidential candidate (Obama is a Christian) — is insisting now that his law, while he admits it was poorly applied in Martin's case, still "empowers people to stop bad things from happening." But Martin's death, and the fact that claims of justifiable homicide have tripled in Florida since the law was enacted, simply indicate that it has all too often emboldened people to make bad things happen. And that's where the shock of the Martin shooting is likely to prove most useful.
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Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2109975,00.html#ixzz1q5XzseMG
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