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Gun Control Reform Activism

Hoyt

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4. Excellent. As someone above said, Stand Your Ground is to protect lynching. George Zimmerman got

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2018, 04:11 PM

Mar 2018

off under the very concept. Of course, gunners like to say Trayvon Martin's murder was not a stand your ground case, they forget that the judge gave the jury stand your ground instructions before they began deliberations.

I think "duty to retreat" is a much better approach. The gunners who think that is unmanly will whine, but screw them.

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The best available evidence suggests NRA-backed gun policies are making crime worse [View all] billh58 Mar 2018 OP

It's called lynching DBoon Mar 2018 #1

The hard part of prosecuting these stand your ground cases flamin lib Mar 2018 #2

Trayvon Martin billh58 Mar 2018 #3

Not necessarily. Aristus Mar 2018 #6

Excellent. As someone above said, Stand Your Ground is to protect lynching. George Zimmerman got Hoyt Mar 2018 #4

Exactly. billh58 Mar 2018 #5