'Stand Your Ground' Laws Protect the Innocent

Bad people are armed and stand their ground, and good people must be able to do so as well

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There are also many bad people who are not armed. The difference is whether you are able to defend yourself safely from them. Often your demographics will rule this. The goal is to not die or let your family die.

Ziggy0101 of FL 12:35PM January 17, 2013

'Stand your ground' means every crime deserves the death penalty.

stu of KS 10:58PM January 15, 2013

Zimmerman was doing what he thought was right by following a suspicious acting person - walking slowly in the rain and stopping to look into people's windows is NOT the actions of an innocent person.

When the 911 operator told him to leave it to the police, you have to wonder if they would have felt ANY guilt had Trevon broken into a house and raped/killed someone. Probably not.

And for people like Reporter122 who "...I hope something something happens to you or someone in your family... " I say this... I hope next time it happens to YOU that you can watch your family being raped or murdered while you hide in a bathroom and piss yourself hoping the police will eventually arrive to place a nice chalk outline around the people you profess to love.

I would much rather have a neighbor like Zimmerman to help protect my family when I was gone than a sea of liberal idiots that would gladly let my family be killed and simply turn the volume up on their dancing with the starts episode.

pissed-off-at-libs of WI 1:49PM June 28, 2012

http://www.change.org/petitions/injustice-in-louisiana-stand-your-ground-law-ignored

Here is a situation where someone broke into a home and attacked the occupants and was killed. An American soldier who served his country still sits nearly a year later, waiting for a fair trial.

Please read, sign and pass on.

Thanks

Kris H of NE 11:48PM May 30, 2012

For a State Representative to say what you said makes me glad I dont live in your district. "Stand Your Ground" is perfectly fine for protecting yourself and your family if someone comes into your home and tries to rob you, it doesnt give you the right to walk around with a gun and pick fights with anyone because you can shoot them if you are loosing the fight. Zimmerman was patrolling the neighborhood, and was told to NOT FOLLOW MARTIN, that THE POLICE DID NOT NEED ZIMMERMAN TO FOLLOW HIM ON FOOT, REPORTING THE "SUSPICIOUS TEENAGER" IS ENOUGH, LET THE POLICE DO THEIR JOB. And you dont think stand your ground and neighborhood watch laws should be more specific, like DO NOT FOLLOW AND CONFRONT THE SUSPICIOUS PERSON, JUST REPORT IT. Again, if we had State Reps like you deciding on laws, I am glad I am not in your district, but oh wait we do have plenty of State Reps that vote on such laws, I hope something something happens to you or someone in your family, maybe you will change your mind about Zimmerman not stepping down and letting police take care of it.

Reporter123 of NJ 11:57AM May 29, 2012

So who (and how) decides who the good guy is and who the bad guy is...I guess Trayvon should have been carrying too and stood his ground...oh, wait, he was probably too young to legally carry!

Peggy Lafata of FL 3:23PM May 01, 2012

Dude Your Racist You Wanted Him To Die Cause He Was Black Whats Your Problem Idiot

Beast Boy of TX 2:02PM April 30, 2012

yeah buddy! peanut butter!!!

joahana of DE 10:08AM April 30, 2012

Let us look at this from a Civil Law point of view, which is by far the dominant view in Western Civilization since Rome, 450 B.C. A person is liable for his wrongful acts. For liability to attach, a person must be shown to have caused the harm complained of. Martin battered a fellow citizen, enough to render himself liable under ancient and current law. So now we move to causation: but for Martin’s actions, he would not have died. (Actually, his parents are also liable under Civilian law.) Now what should we make of Zimmerman’s behavior? A common law jury will decide his fate if the judge does not use a Civil Law to throw out the charges based on the insufficient evidence of causation.

Paul` of LA 11:30PM April 29, 2012

He shouldnt have got shot he was just getting some skittles and tea and he had a whole life a head of him !! and if anyone had to use self defense it should have been trayvon He should have poped a cap in his tookus !

Blah of FL 10:04AM April 10, 2012

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