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News & ArtsThursday, April 5, 2012
Crime Your Right to Work and Stand Your Ground
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Rising numbers of civilian justifiable homicides across the US are closely linked to states with both weak gun controls and stand-your-ground laws, according to a Guardian analysis of FBI and other data, which show a 25% increase in such killings since the controversial self-defence laws started being introduced around 2005.SYG is actually producing murders.Stand-your-ground (SYG) measures, which have attracted increasing scrutiny since the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighbourhood watch volunteer in Florida, allow citizens to use deadly force when they believe their life is in danger, without requiring them to retreat or try to escape the threat first.
"Justified homicides by police are also up," said Kenney [Professor Dennis Kenney, of John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York and a former police sergeant in Florida.] "The police are shooting more people and citizens are shooting more people. We're evolving into an increasingly coarse society with no obligation to diffuse a situation and rapidly turn to force."People are literally getting away with murder."
Thanks goes to Ben Demar for the tip.
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we're on the slippery slope to a libertarian utopia. It's like the old west. They didn't need no stinkin' laws, neither.
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@1: If you're so scared of such laws, you should get the hell out of WA. We've had "stand your ground" since at least 1999. "The law is well settled that there is no duty to retreat when a person is assaulted in a place where he or she has a right to be.1 State v. Studd, 137 Wash.2d 533, 549, 973 P.2d 1049 (1999)"
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This is just part of the NRA fallacy that handguns and concealed weapons will be a total deterrent to all crime. Just like the death penalty stopped all murders. Just like prison already stopped all crime.
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To The Gaurdian
Nobody gives a flying fuck what a bunch of fag brits think. About anything. At all. Ever. Go to a soccer game and beat up the other side for winning, as you usually do, and leave good Americans the hell out of your whining.
To the Slog faggots
Hate the law in this country? Get the fuck out. Nobody worth a damn as an American wants you lazy welfare queens sucking off the income from folks who work for a living anyway. Go to Canada or Europe or some other place where whiny girly men are what they want in citizens.
To Chucky Boy Mudede
Go back to Africa and mouth off in one of the dicatorships there, you worthless waste of breath. See what happens to you on the Dark Continent, asshole. Otherwise, America, love it or get the living fuck out you effeminate bastard scumball.
Nobody gives a flying fuck what a bunch of fag brits think. About anything. At all. Ever. Go to a soccer game and beat up the other side for winning, as you usually do, and leave good Americans the hell out of your whining.
To the Slog faggots
Hate the law in this country? Get the fuck out. Nobody worth a damn as an American wants you lazy welfare queens sucking off the income from folks who work for a living anyway. Go to Canada or Europe or some other place where whiny girly men are what they want in citizens.
To Chucky Boy Mudede
Go back to Africa and mouth off in one of the dicatorships there, you worthless waste of breath. See what happens to you on the Dark Continent, asshole. Otherwise, America, love it or get the living fuck out you effeminate bastard scumball.
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It makes me wonder if SYG laws could be turned on head to justify murder of the police. I shouldn't call it murder, though. It's impossible to murder a pig.
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Alarming for sure. I am confused at the mention of "right to work" in the headline, though. What's the connection? Are you just alluding to another category of similarly Orwellian-titled conservative state laws?
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Whoa, #7! Sorry your life has been so hard and disappointing, but don't take it out on the rest of us. Drop the crappy television shows and go for a walk outside, okay?
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