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by lincoln
3/21/12 10:01:05 AM
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New Re: Neighborhood Watch nut kills in Orlando, FL

Daniel Vice, senior attorney with the gun-control group Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, contends “Stand Your Ground,” combined with Florida laws allowing people to carry guns in public, have made it difficult to pursue criminal charges against people who shoot others and then say it was self-defense.

“All you have to say is that you reasonably believed you were threatened, and the only person who can dispute that is the person you have just killed,” Vice says.

"It's very hard to bring these types of cases because the 'Shoot First' law combined with public carrying of loaded guns protects people who engage someone and shoot to kill."



http://usnews.msnbc....een-shooting-case




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Post #355,622
by folkert
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3/21/12 10:07:17 AM
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New See Post #58557
     Neighborhood Watch nut kills in Orlando, FL - (Another Scott) - (11) - March 12, 2012, 07:26:18 PM EDT
         No offense to Booman... - (S1mon_Jester) - (5) - March 15, 2012, 12:33:18 AM EDT
             Thanks. Here's hoping justice is done. -NT - (Another Scott) - (4) - March 15, 2012, 07:36:05 AM EDT
                 Miami Herald story. - (Another Scott) - (3) - March 17, 2012, 12:50:08 AM EDT
                     A Vigilante took the kids life... - (folkert) - March 17, 2012, 10:22:04 AM EDT
                     The latest storyline... - (S1mon_Jester) - (1) - March 17, 2012, 08:50:36 PM EDT
                         a bit of the 911 call was played on the news - (lincoln) - March 18, 2012, 06:14:43 PM EDT
         Charlie's take. - (Another Scott) - March 20, 2012, 08:32:25 PM EDT
         Re: Neighborhood Watch nut kills in Orlando, FL - (lincoln) - (1) - March 21, 2012, 10:01:05 AM EDT
             See Post #58557 -NT - (folkert) - March 21, 2012, 10:07:17 AM EDT
         '"You got me," the teenager said.' - (Another Scott) - (1) - March 29, 2012, 12:09:24 AM EDT
             was this released by the "black" acting chief? - (boxley) - March 29, 2012, 10:08:15 AM EDT

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