Chicago has much tighter guns laws than Fla, and yet they have already had over 200 shootings this year. So tell me how stringent gun laws prevent shooting?
I will venture that Chicago has a thug Southside type of a problem that even the most stringent gun laws probably wouldn't alleviate. I don't think good citizens of Chicago are getting gunned down on Rush Street by overzealous CCW assholes buoyed by a Stand Your Ground Law. If you have been to Rush Street you would know that's impossible there anyway because those downtown Chicago cops mean business!
All I'm saying is be fair and present it all... You (and your article) laid it all out as if he did it and it was legal and he got away with it and don't bother to present all of the story...leaving out any part that might not fit the picture you are trying to paint. Put all of the facts out there...I at least tried to by admitting that yes, the first trial was affected by stand your ground though it shouldn't have been. I'm a huge defender of CCW but have doubts about stand your ground laws... But present it fairly...(and you could do it without all of the disdain and name calling.)
Let me see if I have this straight... Some overzelous fools have tried to use "stand your ground" as a defense for actions far out of line and Dave and some stat-manipulators want to blame the law??? You truly believe those people read the law and thus figured they had carte blanche to do as they pleased with impunity??? Uh no. They let anger or revenge take over in the heat of tje moment and THEN tried to use the law as a safe harbor in a storm. Unsuccessfully as Stu has shown with his case reference.
I don't believe that Zimmerman was acquitted because of the Stand Your Ground law. The thug was beating his head against a concrete sidewalk and in fear of his life he blew him away. It was a viable self defense verdict.
The "thug" in the Zimmerman case was not running with stolen goods, was not in the act of attacking anyone nor threatening anyone. When accosted by a wanna be cop who had no uniform or credentials he fought back and was murdered. He may have not been perfect kid but he did not present reasons why he should be killed.
Zimmerman's injuries immediately after the incident were consistent with his story that he was having his head hit on the concrete by Martin. Where do you get the story that he was accosted and fought back. The kid was 6 ft. tall and physically superior to Zimmerman. From the beginning the Sanford police felt based on the evidence that they collected that there was no evidence to charge Zimmerman. It wasn't until the State stepped in a brought ******** charges to calm down the mobs that there was any legal action. It was very similar to the thug Michael Brown who attacked a police officer and got shot. Oh and anyone notice that there haven't been any national reports of police shootings lately? Now that the election is over there's no reason to give out fake news stories of blacks being illegally shot to try to energize the black community to go and vote.