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Stand Your Ground
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Stand Your Ground

Since the Trayvon Martin shooting, the media, race baiters, etc., have been telling Americans that the "stand your ground" doctrine is a license to kill. After the not guilty verdict in the Zimmerman trial, we have the NAACP, Eric Holder, Bloomberg, etc., calling for repeal of stand your ground laws - even though Zimmerman's defense never claimed SYG.

If you believe what you have been told by the media, NAACP, etc., about SYG, please take the time to watch. This is Massad Ayoob, a noted expert on self-defense with firearms, talking about SYG. If you have the patience to listen all the way through, you'll hear him talk about the case of a law abiding black American who shot two white assailants in a state without SYG, and was left homeless and penniless by the time the jury acquitted him. This kind of injustice can be prevented with SYG.

And please remember that just because someone involved in a shooting claims SYG, that does not mean SYG is applicable and will protect him. In Florida, for example, SYG defenses are denied in about half the cases in which they are claimed. And in those justifiable shootings where it is accepted, the innocent person who defended himself from an attack does not lose everything (home/job/money) for refusing to submit to an unlawful attack, like the black guy whom Ayoob discusses.




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Stand Your Ground

Stand Your Ground: The “New” Self-Defense Doctrine That’s 136 Years Young
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