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FL: Senate bill aims to repeal Stand Your Grand law
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The Florida Senate has introduced a bill, SB 1052, which is titled the Self Defense Restoration Act. This will delete provisions in the controversial Stand Your Ground law relating to people using or threatening to use force if they feel threatened or in defense of people or their property.
The bill was first filed on Feb. 4 and was referred to the Judiciary Committee on Feb. 10.
“These laws just were passed sort of methodically, particularly in red states, state by state by state, over the course of about 10 years,” said Democrat Rep. Robyn Thomas. |
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"Zimmerman ignored police instructions and confronted Martin before fatally shooting Martin. Zimmerman pleaded not guilty and used Stand Your Ground as his excuse."
This is a lie top-to-bottom, yet they keep repeating it as fact.
Zimmerman complied with (non-binding) DISPATCHER instructions to return to his car and wait for the cops. While doing so, Martin popped out of the shadows and confronted him, not the other way around. Zimmerman did not invoke SYG to get a hearing, he declined to cite it and went to trial. The reason was that he wasn't "standing his ground," he was on his back after being knocked to the ground and beaten severely. It was literally impossible to retreat.
These are the facts of the case, and they are undisputed.
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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