Yes, that’s why I carry one
E.J. Dionne bleating a push for repeal of Stand Your Ground Laws:
What’s insidious about “stand your ground” laws is that in every jurisdiction that has them, these statutes tilt the balance of power in any street encounter in favor of the person who has a gun.
Better to be a victim!
April 18th, 2012 at 10:08 am
The common sense gun-control solution would be to criminalize body guards , at least for private citizens like NPR reporters.
Liberals are against Stand Your Ground, because their armed servants fall under a different provision of the law.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:29 am
No Shit? Really? You mean, Mr.Dionne, that if I carry a Pistol and Stand my Ground, I WON”T be Hurt and/or killed by some Goblin?
Sounds good to me, you Stupid Asshat.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:46 am
Yep given that these laws are ONLY for lawful gun owners (drug dealers killing the competition or sending a message about those who don’t pay up, not only stand their ground, but will stand their ground in your damn living room when they shoot you)
Anti-rights people like this are PRO-CRIMINAL, because they’d hate to see that voting block at any disadvantage from lawful people.
April 18th, 2012 at 11:17 am
“…tilt the balance of power in any street encounter in favor of the person who has a gun.
Yes. That’s why I carry one. Bite me, you effete snob.
April 18th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
That’s a feature, not a bug.
April 18th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
the idea came from on high, courtesy of the NRA
Does he know that California has had the equivalent of “SYG” for over a century, nefore the NRA?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/16/stand-your-ground-the-law-in-blue-california-too
toCalifornia Criminal Code 3470:
[The defendant] is entitled to stand his or her ground and defend himself or herself, and, if reasonably necessary, to pursue an assailant until the danger of death or great bodily injury has passed. This is so even if safety could have been achieved by retreating.
April 18th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Even without stand your ground, an unarmed victim tilts the balance of power in any street encounter in favor of the person who has a gun.
Outlaw guns, and all you do is ensure that the person with the favorable odds is the criminal with the gun.