As we grind on through the ongoing morass of the Martin case in Florida, it occurs to me that there’s an article I should have written a month ago, when the “Stand Your Ground” bill was wending its way toward Governor “I’ve Got Two .357 Magnums” Dayton’s dim-witted veto.<\/p>\n
It turns out a lot of liberals – in Minnesota and nationwide – are really unclear on basic logic, to say nothing of how the law works.<\/p>\n
So as mu public service to the left, to try to educate them to a point where they might be able to participate literately<\/em> in discussing the issue, I’m here out of pure unvarnished compassion to help them out.<\/p>\n Well, Freaking Duh!<\/strong> – I’ve brought this one up before – but as long as liberals say it, I’m going to have to repeat it. Lefties like to refer to “Stand Your Ground” bills as “Shoot First” bills. And I have to ask – have any<\/em> of you hamsters ever thought about what happens in a legitimate self-defense situation when you shoot second<\/em>?<\/p>\n No, I guess not. I’ll give you a subtle hint; you get kidnapped, raped, strangled, stabbed and shot.<\/p>\n “Shooting Second” is a really lousy idea.<\/p>\n (I know, I know – they’re trying to “frame” the term. And I’m just doing my best to have the frame blow up in their faces).<\/p>\n More Of That There Fancy Law Talk<\/strong> – When trying to explain what’s wrong with “Stand Your Ground” laws, liberals will get hushed, snd solemnly intone that “they mean people can shoot in self-defense if they feel<\/em> they’re being threatened”. They usually follow up with one of those Jon Stewart smirks.<\/p>\n And I’m forced to slow waaaaay down – not so much “theatrically” as out of hope that exaggeraged emphasis will help me cut through the sludgy wall of intellectually-entitled smugness – and ask “what do you think people claim when it comes to “self-defense” in any<\/em> state, regardless of whether it’s a “Stand Your Ground” state like Florida, or a place that actively persecutes the law-abiding gun owner, like the District of Columbia?”<\/p>\n “It is ALWAYS based on someone’s “Feeling” that they are in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm<\/em>.. Always, always, always.”<\/p>\n “I mean, what do you think – that in Minnesota, there’s a Predator drone up aloft carrying out surveillance over dark alleys and trailer parks, so that there’s a photographic, objective trail of empmrrical third-party evidence as to which shootings are or are not self-defense?<\/em>\\ \u00a0Flying up there with the unicorns that have all the money for your governlment spending plans?”<\/p>\n “No – in all 50 states and the D of C, self-defense is always, always, always, no exceptions<\/em> about a party claiming to have felt in imminent danger of death or great harm. The difference is in how state law treats it; in Minnesota, the shooter has to prove the shooting was justified; in about half the states, the county attorney has to prove they weren’t”.<\/p>\n They usually run crying to their TV to see what Bill Maher tells them around this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we grind on through the ongoing morass of the Martin case in Florida, it occurs to me that there’s an article I should have written a month ago, when the “Stand Your Ground” bill was wending its way toward Governor “I’ve Got Two .357 Magnums” Dayton’s dim-witted veto. It turns out a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,22],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-27101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files","category-victim-disarmament","tag-stand-your-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27101"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27121,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101\/revisions\/27121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}