Comments on: Senate Committee Approves Minor Stand Your Ground Law Changes

By: hilton martin

hilton martin — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:29:45 +0000

Rocky Thomas is correct in his stats on the crime and who is doing the crimes. Sheriff Morgan said the same thing on our local radio station ( black on white crime is 10 times greater than white on black ,and blacks are only 28% of the population.)

Is there a war against white people? You bet it is. Law or no law, I will be standing my ground.

By: Chief says.....

Chief says..... — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:29:35 +0000

@Susan

I agree with most of what you have said, but I feel one should be able to protect one’s self and/or others when faced with danger anywhere, not just on your own property.

Examples….. I’m in a store which is being robbed, someone being assaulted, etc. and I am present as a legally armed citizen.

In my car and some road raged idiot comes beating on my window.

I am walking from my car to wherever and I am approached by a thug brandishing a weapon.

I believe that a legally armed citizen should be able to protect themselves anywhere, not just on their own property.

I do agree that you should not be able to pursue, unless you have justification to believe that this person may harm others.

It’s a fine line for sure, but IMO Zimmerman crossed that line, but that is irrelevant.

By: Rocky Thomas

Rocky Thomas — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:25:32 +0000

Personally, I totally disagree with Susan. If Susan were being gang raped in her backyard, I’m relatively certain she would appreciate the neighbor leaving his property to confront her attackers. If Susan were being beaten in her backyard, I don’t think she’d appreciate me locking myself in my house, when I had a gun in my pocket. Stand Your Ground allows you to protect not only yourself, but others as well, simple self-defense does not. Stand Your Ground does not force you to run and hide in the face of danger, while others’ lives are in jeopardy. If Susan were my neighbor, in either of those situations, she would find the call to the police, and the wait for their arrival, somewhat unbearable since it’s 18 miles to town from my house. Their response time is typically 20 plus minutes.

Changes to Stand Your Ground have absolutely nothing to do with the Zimmerman case. Zimmerman’s actions were a case of simple self-defense. In respect to his not being charged, it was clearly a case of self-defense. The only reason charges were brought at all in this case, is because the media failed to report MOST of the evidence available to them. The media altered the 911 tapes. The media sensationalized this story in attempts to make it something it wasn’t. If anyone should have been on trial, it was the media, not George Zimmerman.

As for the NAACP being behind changes to Stand Your Ground, that is utterly ridiculous. According to FBI statistics, blacks are 7 times as likely to attack whites, as whites are to attack blacks; the statistics speak very strongly of their cause. Of course the NAACP wants to disarm white people, the brothers are finding crime much more difficult with Stand Your Ground in place.

There is nothing wrong with the Stand Your Ground law, leave it alone. Do not take away the right of law abiding citizens to defend themselves against their criminal attackers.

By: Spoon Champion

Spoon Champion — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:42:22 +0000

In total agreeance with Susan.

By: E

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:52:06 +0000

The Zimmerman case had nothing to do with the stand your ground law. It is just another attempt to weaken our 2nd amendment right.

By: Jr

Jr — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:42:17 +0000

There is nothing wrong with the SYG law as it stands.
You should have the ability to defend yourself and others.
GZ did not use the SYG law, because it did not pertain to his case.
LEO’s have to investigate all situations to determine what is what.
I don’t see the problem.

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:43:58 +0000

I wish they would add something to the law so that in the event of having, or choosing to defend ones self, you wouldn’t have to spend thousands of dollars to prove your innocence in court.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:31:48 +0000

I think reviewing the stand your ground law is great. Stand your ground should be your property you are defending if you feel in danger. It should not be follow someone down the street or walk over to another person’s property and shoot them and get away unpunished. I’m sorry but if you have executed all means of “outs” to avoiding the situation like going inside and locking doors, calling the police, staying in your locked vehicle etc etc then the stand your ground should be used. ONLY as your last resort. If you leave your “property” to follow someone or go across to the neighbor that is yelling/cursing then you are no longer standing your ground you in actuality have left your ground !