Florida panel rejects bill to repeal 'stand your ground'

[ShooterInPA1]

A committee of Florida lawmakers rejected a proposal to repeal the ''stand your ground'' self-defense law Thursday, following an hours-long hearing.

The Florida House of Representatives Criminal Justice Subcommittee held a five-hour hearing starting at 3 p.m. to vote on a bill repealing the law granting individuals to use deadly force when they believe their life is in jeopardy.

"Today, our state is a safer place and has the lowest crime rate in 42 years," Rep. Marti Coley, a Marianna Republican, said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. "Florida's 'stand your ground' law is solid. It's good and should not be changed."

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Alan Williams (D-Tallahassee), would have specifically repealed the statute allowing individuals the right to “stand their ground” and use deadly force against another instead of retreating under fear of death or great bodily harm.

The hearing followed protests in July sparked by the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting and death of Trayvon Martin. Protesters, many of whom were students calling themselves the “Dream Defenders,” held a 31-day sit-in at the Florida Capitol calling for Gov. Rick Scott to call a special session to debate the self-defense law.

While the stand your ground” law did not play a role in Zimmerman being found not guilty by a jury, the law did delay police from arresting and charging Zimmerman in Martin’s death.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...ur-ground?lite

[Shisno]

A committee of Florida lawmakers rejected a proposal to repeal the ''stand your ground'' self-defense law Thursday, following an hours-long hearing.

The Florida House of Representatives Criminal Justice Subcommittee held a five-hour hearing starting at 3 p.m. to vote on a bill repealing the law granting individuals to use deadly force when they believe their life is in jeopardy.

"Today, our state is a safer place and has the lowest crime rate in 42 years," Rep. Marti Coley, a Marianna Republican, said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. "Florida's 'stand your ground' law is solid. It's good and should not be changed."

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Alan Williams (D-Tallahassee), would have specifically repealed the statute allowing individuals the right to “stand their ground” and use deadly force against another instead of retreating under fear of death or great bodily harm.

The hearing followed protests in July sparked by the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting and death of Trayvon Martin. Protesters, many of whom were students calling themselves the “Dream Defenders,” held a 31-day sit-in at the Florida Capitol calling for Gov. Rick Scott to call a special session to debate the self-defense law.

While the stand your ground” law did not play a role in Zimmerman being found not guilty by a jury, the law did delay police from arresting and charging Zimmerman in Martin’s death.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...ur-ground?lite

That's because they knew it was self defense. Why would you arrest and charge somebody who was defending themselves?

[rompus]

These gun grabbers fly on pure emotion, facts mean nothing to them.

[GeneCC]

Making automatic felons out of people who save their own lives is an injustice, an infamy.

I will die content if I die of old age without shooting another human being.

I will not die happy if I am killed because some Elitist scum decided that "little people" don't need 21st century means of fighting back and I am subjected to the "Law of the Jungle" - the strong eat the weak, the many oppress the few.

To me Progressives are horribly wrong about "Stand your Ground". Nothing proves that they do not care in the slightest for the "common man" than when they treat such people as "cells in the social body", as "the masses", like the old Romans treated their Latifundia Slaves "1,000 bodies, give or take ten" and turn us into disarmed victims.

My proof? What sort of armed self defense laws prevail in San Fransisco, New York City or Chicago? These are places where Elitists have ruled for decades, and where the many oppress the few and the strong oppress the weak.