"STAND YOUR GROUND"--IS IT A GOOD LAW??

That's BS and everyone knows it. "They" didn't write the law. It's an ALEC law written on behalf of the NRA to increase gun sales. Once it passed in FL it was shot-gunned (pun intended) around to all of the other Republican controlled legislatures and rammed through state by state. Always follow the money!

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/03/21/alec-has-pushed-the-nras-stand-your-ground-law/186459

how much of your real money would you be willing to put on that bet?

e have a SYG law in Pa but the twist is that you may use deadly force only if threatened by a person who is similarly ARMED. Zimmerman woulda been convicted of something in Pa.
Fla, Tx, and La's laws are just flat crazy and un-American.

When you're a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

"Before the incident where Trayvon Martin was murdered"

you got the most important part right anyways...

No because the system worked. The perp was caught. And nobody died.
Secondly... the perp was caught. Presumably he wasn't a threat any longer.
Thirdly, how does your hero know it was his suspicious character that was caught?
4. The first crime wasn't violent. Zimmerman's was. He shot an unarmed teenager.
5. Should we all walk on eggshells because paranoid gun freaks walk among us?

If Trayvon had carried a gun and stood his ground by killing Zimmerman I bet he would have been convicted of murder. It was a lose/lose situation.

What is the reason the Stand Your Ground laws was enacted to start? Have those reasons changed or been done away with?

Seems those things should be addressed.

Why? You clearly have no interest in facts or the truth.

Instead of wasting my breath, how about I just give the Left a warning:

Your recent attempt to destroy American freedom led to Obama wasting every bit of his political capital in a fruitless tantrum about the NRA, leaving him a do-nothing president for the next few years, and handing the White House to the Republicans in 2016.

If you guys expand on your failure by making yet another attempt to violate this nation's freedom, you will get stomped on so hard come election day that it will likely be decades before you recover any sort of political power.

NRA pressure and lobbying?

OK.

goodbye now...

Give 'im both barrels, Rock!

I don't recall ordering canadian cheerleaders.

I guess I must have...

http://able2know.org/topic/218540-3#post-5391234

Ya know, if it weren't for the spam addresses in your sig line, I wouldn't be reporting this post.

Doesn't really address the reasons why people felt something like the Stand Your Ground law needed to be made legal. It's not just the NRA pushing an agenda. That's a silly thing to say. The NRA are proponents of the second amendment... you know, from the Constitution and all.

Florida is full of old people. It's America's retirement community. Old people can't defend themselves. Do we expect them to just be victims? Does crime not take place in Florida? The people of Florida decided they wanted the laws they have, or kind of anyways. If people do not like it, or decide they can't tolerate it, they can vote for change.

That's it? That's why? Nothing at all about people not wanting to be victims?

But Stand Your Ground is not exclusive to Florida.

Very true. Good thing too.

victims of fearful gun toting unstable folks hiding behind a silly law?

no.