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State GOP Wants Victims of Gun Violence To Prove They Did Not Deserve To Be Shot
A Florida Republican believes the prosecutor should have to prove why the victim of a stand-your-ground shooting didn’t deserve to be shot.
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Karma Strikes Back: Man Who Shot At George Zimmerman Is Using Stand Your Ground
Call it karma or irony or kismet or fate. Or call it obscenely predictable. The man who shot at George Zimmerman is claiming self-defense under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law.
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Racist Gun Zealot Shoots Black Police Chief Four Times, No Charges Filed
Now, another white man is walking free after shooting a Black police chief in Oklahoma investigating a possible bomb plot against a Head Start school in the presence of four other law enforcement officers.
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The Right of Self Defense in Texas Completely Depends on Race
The Texas cases are telling in that there are two dead police officers as a result of not identifying themselves as law enforcement while breaking into private residences in the early morning hours. It is also revealing that a grand jury found that a white man who shot and killed what he thought was an armed intruder acted in self-defense, while a Black man in identical circumstances is charged by a prosecutor with capital murder and faces the death penalty.
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The NRA Escalates Their Campaign of Murder Behind the Disguise of Self Defense
There is a troubling new justification for the right to keep and bear arms the NRA supports and it is entrapping suspected burglars and gunning them down in cold blood with impunity as part of the NRA-written and ALEC proposed “stand your ground” or “Castle Doctrine” laws.
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The Real Winners Of the Zimmerman Trial Were the NRA and ALEC
Truth be told, the real trial and victor in the Trayvon Martin killing was not George Zimmerman, but the NRA authored and ALEC legislated the “Castle Doctrine Act” that has been acquitted.
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Justice Denied and Truth Mocked in the Zimmerman Verdict
Zimmerman was acquitted before opening arguments because the case law shows that concepts like stand your ground only apply to certain people.
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Man Who Killed Florida Teen Over Loud Music Alters His Story to Fit Stand Your Ground
The Florida man who shot a teenager because he felt threatened by the teen’s play of loud music is changing his story so that it will fit a stand your ground defense.
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Witness says George Zimmerman is a Racist
According to Witness #9, George Zimmerman is not only a racist, but a child molester as well.
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Is Standing Your Ground a Man’s Prerogative?
The underlying message in Florida is clear. Stand your ground is a license to kill someone only if you are a man. Stand your ground doesn’t apply to women and minorities.
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Stand Your Ground May Lose Its Legs
Stand Your Ground, a law lobbied hard by the NRA and supported by Wal-Mart may have backlash according to an attorney for the State of California.
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ALEC’s Stand Your Ground Gives Racists Everywhere The Right To Kill
There is no reason for ALEC to promote the Castle Doctrine in 24 states except to allow racists to kill people of color.
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Stand Your Ground Was ALEC’s Vision, Not the Founding Fathers
It is not a stretch to imagine that ALEC has deliberately sought to arm as many disgruntled Americans as possible and given them legal cover to “defend their liberty” from the overreaching government.
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Michele Bachmann Tells Supporters of Trayvon Martin They’re Imagining Things
Michele Bachmann tried to defend Newt Gingrich’s comments about the shooting of Trayvon Martin by accusing people of imagining what happened.
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Rachel Maddow Asks What It Will Take To Fight The Gun Lobby
Rachel Maddow pointed out that no matter what the people want, we can’t even have a dialogue about gun laws because the gun lobby always gets its way.
Trayvon Martin, Racism in the United States, and You
If George Zimmerman is not prosecuted, how many extremists will see this as license to declare open season on your son, your daughter, your husband, your wife?