Unless Hudson was doing something illegal or had no right to be “in front of he Jordan Valley Restaurant,” it sure sounds like stand your ground to me.

I presume he had no permit for the handgun, though, else one of the charges probably would not exist. That first one, though, “discharging a firearm in a public place,” seems to be a bit of a stretch seein’s as how, according to the story, Hudson was mindin’ his own business and got shot at by McCaskill. Seems Hudson had a right to defend himself with whatever means he felt were necessary under the circumstances. I’d have returned fire, as well.

Florida’s “Stand-Your-Ground” law states, “A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”

Now, we have the “element” coming in and ruining everything for the rest of us.

I bet those folks who brought into Studer’s Southtowne Apartments, are as happy as clams.