Friday TOON Roundup 1-Stand Your Ground

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40. Yeah, and that happens fucking never

The great lie of all these Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground arguments is that prosecutors were running around sending people to jail for defending their homes and families. And I call a giant and full-throated BULLSHIT on that. They addressed a completely non-existent problem: justified self-defense was sufficiently well-articulated in our laws without these bullshit claims

What really happened is that a bunch of people who killed somebody under dubious circumstances (like our vigilante dickhead in Florida) had defense attorneys argue that it was %REALLY% self-defense, doncha know, and something about that appealed to the law-n-order macho mentality that we've concocted over the last 30 years. So we got these laws, but it was mostly good prosecutions of relatively shady assholes that got us here, not the supposedly thousands of prosecutions of family men merely defending their blond-haired children from home invasion. And yeah, if you kill somebody, and the circumstances are odd, you should have to make a self-defense case in court, and it is of little interest how much it costs you, relative to the cost to the other person of being, well, fucking DEAD.