Stripped
of legalese and high-sounding bows to an individual's right of self-defense,
the essence of stand your ground laws is a license to kill. You find yourself
in a ticklish situation with a loud-mouth ahole, you don't have to expend
energy in trying to defuse things. You can just blow his sorry a** away.
In
the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman confrontation, whoever survived arguably
had a stand-your-ground defense. Zimmerman was allegedly on the ground getting his head pounded into the
concrete, so he was justified in shooting Martin. Never mind that Zimmerman had
stupidly put himself in harm's way.
If
Martin had been the survivor, he most certainly would have had a stand your
ground defense. He was being followed by some weird wannabe tough guy who had a
gun. If that is not a threatening situation justifying a bit of preventative
killing, nothing is.
Yeah, standing your ground is a great addition
to the Second Amendment. No more need to show a preference for peaceful
solutions or defusing actions. Rationality is for losers. The law says you can
shoot first. Ain't that great?
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