Comments on: Democratic Leader: Battered Women Not Protected By ‘Stand Your Ground’

By: Brad Hankerson

Brad Hankerson — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:23:32 +0000

Domestic violence and stand your ground go hand and hand. The repeal of the law is a stretch. In domestic violence cases, usually the aggressor has a control issue that can be measured. Often there is a track record of previous violence. However, these cases can be marred with circumstance unrelated to the actual violence itself. Women, as well as men, should be protected from acts of violence.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:07:54 +0000

REGARDING:
“Our Republican Congress has let the old “Violence against women act” expire ”

We don’t have a Republican Congress. We have a split Congress — majority Democrat Senate, majority Republican House of Representatives. No supermajorities anywhere although a Democrat for President so vetoes less likely and supermajorities unneeded.

For better or for worse, that was the will of the people.

David for general agreement
on all enacted legislation,
not just bullying parties

By: Henry Coe

Henry Coe — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:55:13 +0000

Our Republican Congress has let the old “Violence against women act” expire and have created a bill to replace it that doesn’t protect women. I doubt it will pass the Senate or get signed into law, which is probably a political strategy by House Republicans so they can say “Democrats are against protecting women”, which isn’t true, but that’s what House Republicans do with legislation, they use for political manipulation, not for the needs of the people.

That being said, Florida needs to protect it’s Citizens and pass Laws that might not be there any more to protect women or really any spouse of significant other is any relationship of a Domestic nature, whether two intimate people or just friends that share a dwelling.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:35:14 +0000

@ David I never agree with you but today YES100%.”

I’ll fix that:

The problem is that Marissa Alexander left living witnesses (her children and husband) to dispute her claims.

FROM:
http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012-05-16/story/marissa-alexanders-husband-says-it-was-her-violent-nature-led-shooting

“The husband of Marissa Alexander said Wednesday it was her violent nature, not his, that ultimately landed her 20 years in prison.
“I never put my hands on Marissa Alexander,” said 36-year-old Rico Gray, accompanied by his 12-year-old son when he spoke with the media Wednesday at the State Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville.
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He said it was Alexander, 31, who first began punching him – - – - he put his hands up in defense “buying time” for his two sons to gather their belongings so he could take them and leave. But when he made the remark that their newborn baby must be fathered by her ex-husband, he said she immediately stopped.
“She said, ‘I got something for your — —,’ and walked away,” Gray said. – - –
“When she came back inside, the first thing I saw was her putting one [a bullet] in the chamber,” he said.
Gray said by the time his kids had come to his side to leave, she had the gun pointed at him.
“As soon as I took my eyes off Marissa, that’s when I heard the gunshot,” Gray said.
He said he never looked back, grabbing the children and running out of the house and down the street.
Alexander was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A judge denied her immunity in a Stand Your Ground hearing in 2011. In March a jury took just 12 minutes to find her guilty.”

The judge and jury didn’t agree that she was justified.

David for better examples

By: bob hudson

bob hudson — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:16:34 +0000

I am sorry in a earlier post I made refferance , to an Chris Brown, it should have been Democrat Sen. Chris Smith. Contact number- Tallahassee Florida, 1-850-487-5112 Senate-VOIR -5112. Tell him what you think. I have.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:05:26 +0000

hitting what you’re aiming at. that’s gun control i can believe in. stand your ground is a great law.

By: Sandie Sellers

Sandie Sellers — Mon, 21 May 2012 23:21:36 +0000

@ David I never agree with you but today YES100%. .

By: Maggie Jackson

Maggie Jackson — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:30:31 +0000

I would rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

By: bob hudson

bob hudson — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:00:36 +0000

Of course the anti gun groups hate our law. Please feel free to check out their websites. They distrust any one who is and independent thinker. Never trust a political figure that endorses gun-control. That in its self says ,you are to stupid to defend your self, you need to let the government do it for you. And we should trust some one, or any one that thinks this way???????

By: bob hudson

bob hudson — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:41:14 +0000

In reality, Fla, in on the for front of giving the people back the right of protecting them selves. There is nothing wrong with laws that state, if you attack some one, car jack some one, or you intend to do do a home invasion, you can be killed. So what is wrong with that? Nothing. Every human being can make choices. No excuse’s, To threaten a human life is a personal decision, you threaten a life be prepared to lose yours. Millions of us go thru life working , being good citizens, taking the good and the bad, and do not resort to crime or violence. So it is time to give those who wish to go down this road some thing to think about. Time for them to think, is this worth it? And the stand your ground law protects all of us. Just as it will punish all those who wish to do harm to others. God Bless all those in law enforcement who do their best to protect us. They have their hands full.