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Stand Your Ground law coming under scrutiny due to the Zimmerman/Florida incident
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<blockquote data-quote="Antigonus" data-source="post: 1773723" data-attributes="member: 19664"><p>The people calling for vigilante justice and the like are all pretty much idiots I think we can all agree. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a day in open court and due process. But the people saying that there is no way Zimmerman will ever get a fair trial are just espousing the opposite view of people calling for harm to Zimmerman - assuming he's absolutely innocent of any wrongdoing is just as intellectually dishonest as assuming he's guilty. Of course he's "innocent until proven guilty", but that legal philosophy has little to do with whether or not Zimmerman actually committed 2nd degree murder.</p><p></p><p>One thing is clear about this case - had Zimmerman not assumed Martin was "suspicious" and let the police do their job, Trayvon would be alive today. Zimmerman, a person with no law enforcement training and no legal authority exceeding Martin's, created a situation in which deadly force was either justified or it was not. Had he not created the situation, the force would not have been needed even if it was justified. This by itself isn't a crime, but it's an important lesson to anyone who thinks they should assume the role of law enforcement whenever they want.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Antigonus, post: 1773723, member: 19664"] The people calling for vigilante justice and the like are all pretty much idiots I think we can all agree. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a day in open court and due process. But the people saying that there is no way Zimmerman will ever get a fair trial are just espousing the opposite view of people calling for harm to Zimmerman - assuming he's absolutely innocent of any wrongdoing is just as intellectually dishonest as assuming he's guilty. Of course he's "innocent until proven guilty", but that legal philosophy has little to do with whether or not Zimmerman actually committed 2nd degree murder. One thing is clear about this case - had Zimmerman not assumed Martin was "suspicious" and let the police do their job, Trayvon would be alive today. Zimmerman, a person with no law enforcement training and no legal authority exceeding Martin's, created a situation in which deadly force was either justified or it was not. Had he not created the situation, the force would not have been needed even if it was justified. This by itself isn't a crime, but it's an important lesson to anyone who thinks they should assume the role of law enforcement whenever they want. [/QUOTE]
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