Florida State Attorney Corey Seeks 60-Year Sentence for Marissa Alexander

[JoeyT]

118. I'm not sure if I count as part of the gun crowd.

I'm more pro-gun than a lot of DU, but drastically less pro-gun than most of the US, for what good that is.

I think this case, as the with Dunn case so far*, sets an extremely dangerous precedent. "If you shoot at someone, make sure you don't miss" is just about one of the worst things you could hope to codify into law. It's a bit less dangerous than "Shoot anyone that annoys you, no matter what lengths you have to go to to justify it.", but that's a hard bar to clear.

What's really confusing me is the defense of the charges. Either warning shots mean the threat wasn't imminent, and the law is blatantly fucked up, because it encourages immediate escalation to deadly force in a threatening situation, even if you have to reload and chase them through the streets to get there, or she meant to hit him, the threat WAS imminent, and the threat isn't being considered imminent because she wasn't a white guy. Which means the law is blatantly fucked up, and being enforced by racist idiots. There's really no direction this can go in that makes the self-defense laws in Florida look good.

*Which is why it's very important to convict Dunn of murder. As it stands right now, his crime appears to be missing when shooting at African Americans.