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toon- The stand your ground defense (Original Post)
n2doc
Mar 2012
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CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)1. I'm glad the cartoonists are having their say.
I was thinking this would be the next thing to happen if nothing is done about the current law.
arthritisR_US
(7,291 posts)2. That is where they are heading. n/t
doc03
(35,361 posts)3. This stuff reminds me of the old westerns where you could shoot anyone
and get away with it as long as you had a witness saying the other guy drew first.
TNLib
(1,819 posts)5. yeah but even in the wild west days the other guy had to be packin for that excuse to work.
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The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)4. The 'stand your ground' law makes it perfectly legal to shoot Zimmerman.
Anyone in that neighborhood can take a walk, see Zimmerman, and gun him down because Zimmerman is a known killer with a gun.
I wouldn't shed a single tear or lose 1 minute of sleep.