Thanks, Stand Your Ground! No homicide charges for teen who shot, killed man

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140. No, homicide is not a good thing.

Self defense was legal everywhere before SYG. SYG goes beyond self defense to make murder legal. It means someone can kill when he has a safe retreat available. That is not someone who kills because he has no choice but because he chooses to kill. The bad guy is not the unarmed teenager walking home from the store but the killer.

Any decent human would only take a life if no other option existed, if killing was only necessary to save his or herself or a loved one. Anyone who kills absent that situation is a murder, morally if not legally. Some support SYG for no other reason than they like the idea of killing someone, especially a black man, which is why Zimmerman is their hero. These are profoundly dangerous and diseased people who represent the greatest threat to public safety that exists. They are far worse than drug dealers or thieves because their goal is murder, first and foremost. SYG legalizes the actions of profoundly evil people. The guy in Texas who killed because he saw two Hispanic men leaving his neighbor's house with stuff is a clear example. He killed because he choose to kill. On a moral scale, there is no comparing a thief with him. His evil is far, far worse. Thanks to the most reactionary elements in society, those homicidal creatures are empowered to kill at will.

There are people who value white lives over black or Hispanic lives and value property over all human life. To them killing is always a good thing. That is what makes those people so dangerous.