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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The stand-your-ground law is central to understanding what happened.  Trayvon Martin was walking through thw neighborhood when he was followed and then approached by a man with a gun.  You know what he did?  He stood his ground.  That's what freaked out Zimmerman and mad him shoot.  The situation sucks, but what really sucks is the NRA going around the country pushing stand-your-ground and concealed weapons laws.  [b]The NRA is to blame for the whole mess[/b].[/quote]

WRONG.  Zimmerman alone is to blame.  The NRA doesn't promote the shooting of unarmed, unprovoking teenagers. [/quote]

WRONG yourself.  The NRA is promoting laws that encourage people to carry guns and shoot whenever they "feel" threatened.  It doesn't matter if the victim is a teen,[b] unarmed or was not actually provoking[/b].[/quote]

The law says otherwise.  [/quote]

Here's what the law says:  "a person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if: (1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself . . . "  So I ask again, How would you feel if followed in the dark and approached by an angry man with a gun - you wouldn't feel threatened?  What will a jury say?  Because if the jury decides that Martin was justified in standing his ground, and it could also decide that Zimmerman was justified in standing his ground, then you have a situation where someone gets killed and no one is to blame.  What a f'ing stupid law.  Thanks so much, NRA.

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