As usual a totally over-reaction by politicians. Wonder how they would feel if they were a victim of a home invasion or other crime and did not have time to retreat.
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I think it's unlikely that this event will initiate a serious repeal effort. There is more than sufficient information available to show that Martin initiated the conflict; the "stand your ground" law (the name/insinuation of which is BS...it's nothing more than the removal of the "duty to retreat"), in this case, worked as intended. Once the dust has settled, people like this D-Ft Lauderdale will find that he has overreacted and will lose any support for this effort that currently exists among otherwise intelligent people. He will, of course, retain the support of Sharpton, Jackson, etc., along with the Brady Bunch and other ignorants. Though I suspect, before much longer, Sharpton & Jackson will realize that they've been feed incorrect information and been outraged over, essentially, nothing, and they too will quietly slink away until something else happens that they can get riled up about.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/86948628/Trayvon-Martin-Police-Report
ETA: IMO, the title of this thread, which makes it seem like repeal is actually in progress or being considered by the FL Legislature, with a "supporting" article that is nothing more than one D "taking public testimony", not even having an actual hearing in the legislature, serves only to rile up forum members who will react to the title without reading the article.
I find this happening frequently on various forums. The majority do not read the article linked; they read only the title of the thread and opening comments and they react to that, rather than to what's actually going on.
I think it's unfortunate, mostly that people don't bother to educate themselves on a topic before getting themselves upset about it, but also that there seems to be a need to mislead people into an unfounded outrage.
I see this being used by groups/people with political motivations and heavily by 2nd Amendment related groups. I don't fall for it and I try to inject facts into the conversation, though many still prefer to run on their assumptions of what might happen instead.
Such is the state of our once great nation.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/86948628/Trayvon-Martin-Police-Report
ETA: IMO, the title of this thread, which makes it seem like repeal is actually in progress or being considered by the FL Legislature, with a "supporting" article that is nothing more than one D "taking public testimony", not even having an actual hearing in the legislature, serves only to rile up forum members who will react to the title without reading the article.
I find this happening frequently on various forums. The majority do not read the article linked; they read only the title of the thread and opening comments and they react to that, rather than to what's actually going on.
I think it's unfortunate, mostly that people don't bother to educate themselves on a topic before getting themselves upset about it, but also that there seems to be a need to mislead people into an unfounded outrage.
I see this being used by groups/people with political motivations and heavily by 2nd Amendment related groups. I don't fall for it and I try to inject facts into the conversation, though many still prefer to run on their assumptions of what might happen instead.
Such is the state of our once great nation.
Yep I do....http://news.yahoo.com/coke-withdraws-group-backs-stand-ground-law-230247092.html
Do people even still drink Coca-Cola???
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