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In reply to the discussion: South Carolina Prosecutors Say Stand Your Ground Doesn’t Apply To Victims Of Domestic Violence [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)70. Culver Kidd is a corrupt piece of shit, no doubt.
Too bad it's not likely this guy will be held to account for that, though, at least not in the nearfuture, anyway.
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South Carolina Prosecutors Say Stand Your Ground Doesn’t Apply To Victims Of Domestic Violence [View all]
babylonsister
Oct 2014
OP
It's pretty much "Stand Your Ground is for men only...and by 'men' I mean 'white men'".
Ken Burch
Oct 2014
#41
Makes me wonder if these "officials" are worried about their spouse standing their ground on them.
kairos12
Oct 2014
#42
No discussion of SYG should be complete w/o reminding everyone that Jeb Bush was a major
FSogol
Oct 2014
#11
Though I have questioned SYG as it appears to apply to one subset of folk "allowed" to SYG
etherealtruth
Oct 2014
#28
Wish I could say I was surprised. SYG is for white, straight, men to shoot "the other" where
stevenleser
Oct 2014
#14
article implies SYG generally is inapplicable to women in abusive relationships.
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2014
#25
the problem isn't punishment, rather scaring these guys enough to keep them from
redruddyred
Oct 2014
#54
There was a detailed article on SC's problems dealing with domestic violence a while back
n2doc
Oct 2014
#31
How much longer can it be until the Republican Party pushes for women wearing burqas,
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2014
#45