stand your ground

State GOP Wants Victims of Gun Violence To Prove They Did Not Deserve To Be Shot

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…

8 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

12 years ago

Witness says George Zimmerman is a Racist

According to Witness #9, George Zimmerman is not only a racist, but a child molester as well.

12 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago