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In reply to the discussion: There's a debate about whether Zimmerman should have been carrying [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)The fellow who wrote that, by the way, is a fizzing critter who ought not be allowed possession of anything more lethal than a popsicle stick.
My statement in regard to Florida is based on accounts of the debate on the floor of its legislature, and is accurate: no one could cite an instance where a person in the state had been prosecuted who would not be prosecuted under the law being contemplated, and then passed.
Some people may come to grief in defending themselves, just as some are rail-roaded without even being near a crime, and just as some may get away with murder, or are hit by lightening, or brain themselves taking a shower in the morning. It is not something that needs any particular solving, other than seeing to it prosecutors' offices are staffed by sane and intelligent people, and certainly does not 'solving' by the sort of sloppy invitation to abuse embodied in this Florida law and its ilk in other states.