|
NOTE!
This is a real-time comments system. As such, it's also a
free speech zone within guidelines set forth on the Post
Comments page. Opinions expressed here may or may not
reflect those of KeepAndBearArms staff, members, or
any other living person besides the one who posted them.
Please keep that in mind. We ask that all who post
comments assure that they adhere to our Inclusion
Policy, but there's a bad apple in every
bunch, and we have no control over bigots and
other small-minded people. Thank you. --KeepAndBearArms.com
|
The
Below Comments Relate to this Newslink:
Constitution Check: Is There a Constitutional Right to "Stand Your Ground"?
Submitted by:
Bruce W. Krafft
Website: http://www.freelibertywriters.com/
|
There
are no comments
on this story
Post Comments | Read Comments
|
... "At this point, if [Zimmerman] is charged, his defense very likely will be based in part on a Florida statute now widely known as the 'Stand Your Ground' law. But behind that law, initiated by the National Rifle Association and now imitated in more than 20 other states, is an argument that such a right to defend one's self in the face of imminent danger ought to be treated as constitutional in nature."
"That is based on a theory that has been talked about for years in academic circles and among gun-rights advocates, and, if one could discuss it without the emotion of the kind stirred up by Trayvon Martin's tragic death, the theory is not entirely frivolous." ... |
No
Comments found for this Newslink
|
|
QUOTES
TO REMEMBER |
Today the taxing power, rather than chattel slavery, is the instrument by which the parasitical element of the population subsists. And that element, which includes politicians, panics at the slightest reduction in the state's power to plunder. Once you start liberating taxpayers, even a little tiny bit, nobody knows where it may end. —Joseph Sobran |
|
|