Right wing is throwing Zimmerman under the bus to protect "Stand Your Ground".

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20. Until the next kid is murdered in the street

The NYT reported in an op-ed piece today that the number of justifiable homicide claims have tripled since the law's adoption.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/opinion/shot-to-death-in-florida.html?_r=1&ref=trayvonmartin

Since the enactment of the law, claims of justifiable homicide tripled in Florida, according to state data. “It’s almost insane what we are having to deal with,” Willie Meggs, the state attorney in Tallahassee, declared this week. Self-defense is being invoked in everything from gang shootings to backyard disputes between neighbors, with prosecutors left to disprove the shooters’ claims.

Stand Your Ground laws are abominations that should be repealed. One obvious flaw among many is that slain victims can never tell their side of the story — an undisputed fact in the tragic slaying of Trayvon Martin.