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meow2u3

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5. Stand Your Ground needs to be challenged in court

Reply to tridim (Original post)

Mon Aug 5, 2013, 05:01 PM

Aug 2013

The way I read those laws, it's so vague--perhaps intentionally so--that it can be interpreted to mean a license to murder anyone the shooter doesn't like.

Even the race, class, or national origin/ancestry of the victim can be, and often is, construed as "suspicious behavior." In other words, a criminal who picks a fight can get away with murder--literally. It's about time the courts took a close look at the license to kill laws.

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SCUT FARKUS NOT GUILTY IN SHOOTING DEATH OF LIL RALPHIE PARKER UNDER INDIANA STAND YOUR GROUND LAW [View all] tridim Aug 2013 OP

Jesus H Christ on a trailer hitch NightWatcher Aug 2013 #1

funny hfojvt Aug 2013 #2

Yea, it's not as good as I thought it was upon first reading... tridim Aug 2013 #3

He was the one they buried in a ventriloquist's trunk. Gregorian Aug 2013 #4

Stand Your Ground needs to be challenged in court meow2u3 Aug 2013 #5

Of coarse we both know the OP is parody? pipoman Aug 2013 #8

I believe Mr. Parker was wearing a hoodie rurallib Aug 2013 #6

In Virginia he would have been found guilty. ileus Aug 2013 #7