{"id":36662,"date":"2013-07-16T18:09:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T22:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36662"},"modified":"2013-07-16T18:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T22:17:51","slug":"holders-nation-of-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36662","title":{"rendered":"Holder’s nation of victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> quotes Attorney General Eric Holder today as he spoke to the NAACP about the evil “stand your ground” laws in the wake of the irrational racially-charged Zimmerman trial;<\/p>\n

\u201cSeparate and apart from the case that has drawn the nation\u2019s attention, it\u2019s time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an address to an NAACP convention, Holder said it\u2019s time to question laws that \u201csenselessly expand the concept of self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attorney general said the country must take a hard look at laws that contribute to \u201cmore violence than they prevent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such laws \u201ctry to fix something that was never broken,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Holder is looking for laws that try to fix something that was never broken, he should check out Joe Manchin’s gun laws. But, ya know, if nothing is broken, why are people actually standing their ground in the face of criminals? According to the Washington Post<\/a>, “justifiable shootings” in Florida have tripled;<\/p>\n

In the seven years since it was enacted, the Florida law and others like it have become an effective defense for an increasing number of people who have shot others, according to state records and media reports.<\/p>\n

Justifiable homicides in Florida have tripled, according to Florida Department of Law Enforcement data. Other states have seen similar increases, FBI statistics show.<\/p>\n

In the five years before the law\u2019s passage, Florida prosecutors declared \u201cjustifiable\u201d an average of 12 killings by private citizens each year. (Most justifiable killings are committed by police officers; those cases, which have also tripled, are not included in these statistics.) But in the five years after the law passed, that number spiked to an average of 36 justifiable killings per year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They say that like it’s a bad thing.<\/p>\n

In that article, the president of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys complains that they have to prove a negative, that the shootings weren’t self-defense. Well, isn’t that the state’s job anyway? I guess, the Washington Post, Eric Holder and the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys want us all to run away, which in my school ground experience usually only encourages bullies to advance their attack.<\/p>\n

It sounds to me like the Left needs a lesson in defining “justifiable”. It means that someone who needed shooting, got shot. How many of our “feel good” stories involved a crime victim needing to shoot a criminal after they called the police. Are we supposed to leave our houses to make ourselves safe, while the criminals ravage our property and our families just so we’re not “standing our ground”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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