Stand Your Ground Law

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(08-09-2018, 12:54 PM)Beaker Wrote: So was the guy who got shot totally blameless? 

And was running out and shoving a guy to the ground the smart first move? 

To me, calling the guy who got shot a blameless victim perpetuates the idea that emotional and physical responses are a perfectly fine way to respond. Society is turning into the Jerry Springer show. People need to start THINKING before they act.

Was he blameless?  Well, I'd say no, but that's just me.  I think our society expects men to defend the women and children, and I wouldn't go around bragging that I was a great guy because I watched some guy yell and my wife and kids while I stood there and did nothing.  Yep, I'm smart because he might have shot me if I punched him.

That is what is interesting to me.  Before this event if I screamed at some woman and her kids and her husband or boyfriend or brother or some other male ran out and cold cocked me I would have thought "Geez, I shouldn't have opened my mouth" but now I guess I can say "Gee, I'd better shoot him!"  It goes again what I assumed society asked of men, but I guess we have evolved, or some such.