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safeinOhio

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4. Still big enough wholes to drive a truck thru.

Reply to X_Digger (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 11:48 PM

Mar 2012

"person reasonably believes that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm"

Shooters word against a dead mans. What could possibly go wrong? Even to a trained police officer a wallet in the hand of a black man looks like a gun.

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Florida's Make My Day law -- [View all] gateley Mar 2012 OP

The asshole that pushed this bill thru is named Dennis Baxley russspeakeasy Mar 2012 #1

It was a bit hyperbolic there.. X_Digger Mar 2012 #2

But that appears to be what is happening (Zimmerman can't claim that he chased the guy down..." he gateley Mar 2012 #3

No doubt.. but it's the police's cock-up here.. X_Digger Mar 2012 #5

You'd think the police would be scrambling to do SOMETHING with all this national gateley Mar 2012 #8

Well, now they're between a rock and a hard place. X_Digger Mar 2012 #10

Still big enough wholes to drive a truck thru. safeinOhio Mar 2012 #4

That part of the law isn't new, and hasn't been overly problematic. X_Digger Mar 2012 #6

In most cases it becomes the alive shooters word over safeinOhio Mar 2012 #7

Word of the alive shooter versus the totality of the evidence. X_Digger Mar 2012 #9

The relevance to MM piece is safeinOhio Mar 2012 #12

Zimmerman Go Vols Mar 2012 #11