{"id":39379,"date":"2013-10-30T06:39:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39379"},"modified":"2014-11-19T17:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T23:29:51","slug":"narrative-narrative-narrative-narrative-narrative-narrative-narrative-narrative-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39379","title":{"rendered":"Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…sorry. \u00a0It’s getting so thick, I’m getting just a tad punchy.<\/p>\n

There’s an election coming up. \u00a0And the Democrats are going to need to need all the racial tension they can generate.<\/p>\n

And their wholly-owned subsidiary at NPR is there to help them<\/a>\u00a0– in this case, in a story about Senate hearings on “Stand Your Ground” laws helpfully entitled “Senators bicker over state ‘stand your ground’ laws”:<\/p>\n

The 2012 shooting death of Martin, 17 and unarmed, [provided you leave out “fists” and “bulk” – Ed]\u00a0<\/span>and the acquittal this year of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman stirred racial tensions and sparked debate over stand your ground laws in Florida and at least 21 other states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, no.<\/p>\n

The case itself stirred no tensions to speak of – until the Obama Administration, desperate to get out the black vote, turned Martin into a campaign stage prop, with the willing and unseemly connivance of the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Now, if you recall the piece on “ProtectMN”‘s “strategy” for the coming year, one of their goals is to emphasize emotional stories. \u00a0This is a common debate technique, of course; as my lawyer friends tell me, “when the facts are against you, argue law; when the law is against you, argue facts; when both are against you, argue like hell” – which means “emotions”, when you get right down to it.<\/p>\n

And the media aren’t going to do anything about it.<\/p>\n

Case in point:<\/p>\n

Lucia Holman McBath, the mother of Jordan Russell Davis, implored the Senate to resolve the nation’s debate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[I’m going to hold out on the actual incident that led Ms. McBath to testifying in the Senate for just a bit, here]<\/span><\/p>\n

“You can lift this nation from its internal battle in which guns rule over right,” McBath told the panel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ms. McBath lost a 17 year old son to someone who shot him in “self-defense”.<\/p>\n

So what was the miscarriage of justice that led to Ms. McBath’s son’s killer walking away based on a “Stand your Ground” claim? \u00a0I’ll add emphasis:<\/p>\n

Her 17-year-old son was shot and killed nearly a year ago when Michael David Dunn, 46, allegedly opened fire on a Dodge Durango with four teenagers inside after complaining of their loud music and saying he saw a gun and thus a threat<\/strong>. Jordan had been inside. Authorities never found a gun in the vehicle, the Florida Times-Union reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, may I add…:<\/p>\n

Dunn’s trial is set for next year<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Mr. Dunn hasn’t even been tried yet<\/em>?<\/p>\n

We do not know the facts of the case that NPR hasn’t deigned to report…<\/p>\n

…well, yes. We do. \u00a0We’ve looked at this case in the past. \u00a0Dunn would seem to have done just about everything possible wrong<\/a> for a “self-defense” case. \u00a0Is he claiming “stand your ground?” \u00a0Sure.<\/p>\n

And if he’s found guilty – as I’d imagine he will be – of some degree of homicide or another? \u00a0It’s irrelevant to “Stand your Ground”, because\u00a0every other factor of the shooting that would lead to a self-defense claim\u00a0<\/em>would seem to have been wrong.<\/p>\n

The fact that he\u00a0claims\u00a0<\/em>“Stand your Ground” in a shooting that is otherwise wrong in every legal particular is\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>a reflection on the Stand Your Ground law.<\/p>\n

Not that NPR will tell you that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…sorry. \u00a0It’s getting so thick, I’m getting just a tad punchy. There’s an election coming up. \u00a0And the Democrats are going to need to need all the racial tension they can generate. And their wholly-owned subsidiary at NPR is there to help them\u00a0– in this case, in a story about Senate hearings on “Stand Your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,22],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-39379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narrative-for-sale","category-victim-disarmament","tag-protectmn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39379","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=39379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39381,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39379\/revisions\/39381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}