Defending "Stand Your Ground" Laws: Opposing the Provocation of an Attack to "Defend*

3-25-2012 • Free Patriot Press

As someone who believes in the right to self-defense, I support the existence of “Stand Your Ground” laws and believe that every person has the right to defend themselves wherever they have a right to be. I draw the line at instigating or provoking someone to attack so that you can then “defend” yourself and/or using unwarranted or excessive force to defend yourself; as it seems may have been the case with Zimmerman, who admittedly followed Trayvon Martin before an altercation that lead to Martin's death.

1 Comments in Response to Defending "Stand Your Ground" Laws: Opposing the Provocation of an Attack to "Defend*

Comment by normnip

Entered on: 3/26/2012 4:44:25 PM

Only a handful of people have a reasonable idea of what happened. Everybody else needs to keep their emotions in check and find something else to occupy their minds with, stop letting the Media manipulate their emotions and have enough humility to not make judgements about things they can't really know enough about.

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