ALEC, NRA Pushed ‘Stand Your Ground’ Legislation At Center Of Trayvon Martin Killing

[Justice wanted]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/stand_your_ground_legislation_that_may_have_let_tr.php

(I BRING THIS INFOMATION TO INFORM PEOPLE NOT TO START A THREAD TO ALLOW TROLLS TO PLAY AS I HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF DOING!)


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Minutes documenting a 2005 meeting from an old ALEC website provided to TPM by the Center for Media and Democracy and Common Cause show that Marion Hammer of the National Rifle Association (NRA) pitched model legislation to ALEC’s Criminal Justice Task Force. An old NRA update also documented the meeting. “Her talk was well-received, and the task force subsequently adopted the measure unanimously,” the NRA wrote in an Aug. 12, 2005 post on the NRA website.

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I'm not surprised by ALEC being involved in this nor the fact that I've read on Think Progress that ALEC is trying to get "Stand Your Ground Leg" in other states. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/22/449961/how-nra-fueled-floridas-stand-your-ground-law/ (read the last paragraph in the article.)