Florida's dangerously insane stand your ground law is essentially a license to murder

[tomhagen]

[pnwmom]

1. It sure is. You can clearly see that after the shooter is knocked on his butt,

the guy who pushed him is stepping away and pulling up his pants when the shooter whips out the gun and fires.

The guy who was killed wasn't a threat at all. This was a revenge shooting, pure and simple.

[Oppaloopa]

2. This is not the first time he has pulled a gun on someone. He did this before in a road range

incident. He also threatened a tank truck driver at the same location for the same thing. In the road rage incident the other man did call the cops. But he denied it and the other man refused to press charges. So we know he is a liar and a coward. Now it is up to our attorney general to press charges which she will not at a trumper and NRA lover.

[gordianot]

3. Stay away from Florida.

Why go to a war zone to spend your money!

[The Wizard]

4. They elected the biggest Medicare fraud

as Governor. It's very uncivilized. Unless the voters decide to change the laws to reflect a civil culture, Florida will continue its descent into the Third World.

[rusty quoin]

5. This Fl law is over 10 years old, isn't it?

I’m surprised the natural reaction to the law has not happened.

[greymattermom]

6. So this law is in effect

at Mar a Lago, right?

[smirkymonkey]

12. I think I see where your fiendish little mind is going with this...

[BlueJac]

7. A license to kill is what it is!!

Now the entire nation can see how crazy Florida is, there was no need to kill that man. I hope he gets taken down for murder!

[cab67]

8. I've said it before....

Florida was one of the first states to adopt SYG, but it will also be one of the first to overturn it.

The most powerful special interest in Florida is the tourism industry. That's why Florida was the first state to allow prosecutors to charge juveniles as adults - there was a series of high-profile robberies and murders committed by teenagers against European tourists, and European countries started issuing advisories against travel to Florida because of them.

Eventually, some yahoo is going to shoot an unarmed tourist from abroad, and he/she is going to claim "but I feared for my life." And he/she is going to walk because of SYG. Which will hit the tourism industry in its wallet.

[dreamland]

9. Big man with a gun

I hope karma hits him like it did with Zimmerman. He's probably walking around proud of the fact that he killed someone. I hope his life will be in Hell because from this moment on he's going to be afraid of everyone.

[IronLionZion]

10. When a POC shoots a white person dead

then we'll see some changes to the law. If there is video and justification of self-defense, then the law will be changed instantly if a POC shoots a white person dead.

[dalton99a]

11. +1