The Big Task Force Launched After Trayvon Martin's Death Has Decided To Change Almost Nothing

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http://www.businessinsider.com/florida-stand-your-ground-laws-unchanged-2012-11

Florida's permissive firearm laws have landed the state in the center of a national controversy but the Sunshine State is refusing to bow to pressure to reform its controversial Stand Your Ground Laws.

After George Zimmerman cited the law in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, Gov. Rick Scott created a Stand Your Ground task force to review the law.

And now the task force has decided not to change the gun laws, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

"The task force concurs with the core belief that all persons, regardless of citizenship status, have a right to feel safe and secure in our state," the task force wrote in its recommendation. "To that end, all persons have a fundamental right to stand their ground and defend themselves from attack with proportionate force in every place they have a lawful right to be and are conducting themselves in a lawful manner."


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[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. I hope no one expected otherwise in this most

corrupted of all states.