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FL: Massad Ayoob presents the Florida “Stand Your Ground” Law
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Massad Ayoob visited the Suwannee County Library on Thursday, Sept. 1 to give a presentation on the Florida “Stand Your Ground” law and related principles to the law.
The law—which passed in Florida in 2005—encompasses different principles and removed the obligation to retreat when the use of deadly force is justified because of an imminent threat of bodily harm or death.
Ayoob, the author of more than a dozen books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, presented to a group of around 40 people at the library. He explained why giving seminars like these were important. |
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PHORTO
(9/10/2016)
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Re: artificial duty to retreat
Natural law imbues us with the right to stand and defend ourselves. The so-called "duty to retreat" is a man-made invention. This was understood for most of our history, but fell out of favor when politically progressive influences convinced the masses that noble human idealism supersedes natural law. It does not. Nothing that exists in the material world can negate natural law.
As Supreme Court Justice and judicial icon Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote, "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife."
Yes. JUST so.
There IS no duty to retreat; it's a 'progressive' fabrication. |
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Sosalty
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| Man, what I'd pay to hear Ayoob speak to a quaint group of 40, priceless. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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