Gun Control & RKBA
Showing Original Post only (View all)Bloomberg: ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Don’t Belong in Civilized Society (Bloomy at it again) [View all]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg went down to Washington D.C. earlier today to advocate for limits to Stand Your Ground laws, made famous the recent shooting of Trayvon Martin, which allow looser standards for the use of deadly force. Flanked by representatives of groups like the NAACP and National Urban League, he announced a new initiative to push states, particularly Florida, to reform their self-defense laws.
These laws are not the kind of laws that a civilized society should have, Mr. Bloomberg said at the event. This has nothing to do with gun owners rights, nothing to do with the Second Amendment. Plain and simple, this is just trying to give people a license to murder.
No civilized society that I know of, outside of America, has laws that permit anybody to just decide someone shouldnt be alive, pull out a gun, shoot them, and get away with it, he later added.
(The actual standard to use deadly force under these types of laws, according to Wikipedia, is reasonable belief of a threat, without an obligation to retreat first.)
http://www.politicker.com/2012/04/11/bloomberg-stand-your-ground-laws-dont-belong-in-civilized-society/
No civilized society that I know of, outside of America, has laws that permit anybody to just decide someone shouldnt be alive, pull out a gun, shoot them, and get away with it,
That's a hoot. I'm still laughing. NOBODY IN THE US can decide someone shouldn't be alive and shoot them. That's against the law.