Race card revoked
Stand your ground laws are not about race:
But what the study does seem to show is that stand your ground benefits defendants a majority of the time and it matters little, if any, what color the shooter or the victim was.
Society may not yet be colorblind, but stand your ground seems to be.
It should not be a rallying point for racial grandstanding.
March 17th, 2014 at 5:37 pm
the one comment on that site so far ends with ‘Al Sharpton is A1 with me’ Apparently didn’t read the column.
March 17th, 2014 at 7:18 pm
Dan, that was the most intelligent part of her comment.
March 18th, 2014 at 2:08 pm
But..but..the disparate impact of social justice has rendered hyphenation of credentials and authority…moot.
March 18th, 2014 at 2:34 pm
“It should not be a rallying point for racial grandstanding.”
Nothing should be a rallying point for racial grandstanding. A basic understanding of basic human rights is all that’s needed to solve any injustice. Anything else is beside the point, and usually hostile to the point.
March 18th, 2014 at 5:19 pm
SYG is opposed for exactly the reason you like it: equality in the face of the law.
You don’t get nearly as many opportunities for graft, corruption, selective prosecution and grandstanding in office when the laws are clear and require the government treat everyone as equals.
March 18th, 2014 at 11:19 pm
“When the laws are clear and require the government treat everyone as equals.”
This needs to be carved in stone, or at least tattooed onto the backs of the hands of every legislative analyst drafting laws.
This or something very similar is one of the things out of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s pen that should be memorized by all, and recited every morning with the pledge of allegiance by legislators.