As you know, Florida was a leader in developing the legal
concept of “stand-your-ground,” which allows Floridians to kill people if they
feel threatened. Now some Floridians
think the concept should be taken further.
They argue for “Pre-Emptive Stand-Your-Ground,” which would make it even easier to justify
killing people you don't like. Now we
have a test case.
A guy in Florida had been having some dispute with his
neighbors. Sometime on Labor Day he heard some of them saying they were going
to "GET HIM." He went home and got his gun. He said he then
"snuck up" on his neighbors while they were enjoying a barbecue. He
opened fire on the three neighbors, killing two and wounding one who survived
even though he was shot 11 times.
The Florida man's lawyers are demanding that the murder
charges be dismissed since the guy who shot his neighbors was just
"standing his ground." They cite the "Bush Doctrine" which
says you can wage pre-emptive "war" against potential threats before
they metastasize into imminent threats. Under the evolving Florida legal
concept of "Pre-Emptive Stand-Your-Ground" a citizen does not have to
wait until "someone puts a gun right at his head" before he can
invoke stand-your-ground. FL is such a
wonderful place to live or visit. And if
you want to kill someone there, you can always find a legal excuse for doing
so.
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