helmuth_hubener
05-11-2017, 02:43 PM
Good news:
The Senate blinked in a fight over a standard of evidence, sending a fix to the state’s “stand your ground” law to Gov. Rick Scott.
The House on Friday voted to “insist” that the Senate accept its amendment to Sen. Rob Bradley‘s bill (SB 128), which aims to streamline claims of self-defense.
Last month, it OK’d the bill but changed the burden of proof to “clear and convincing evidence,” a lower threshold than the Senate’s “beyond a reasonable doubt,” to overcome self-defense.
By Friday evening, the Senate finally accepted the change on a 22-14 vote…
The Republican majority in the Legislature wants to shift the burden to prosecutors, making them disprove a claim of self-defense. A state Supreme Court decision had put the onus on the defendant to show self-defense.
Democrats have inveighed against the measure, saying it would encourage bad actors to injure, even kill, and then claim self-defense.
Brilliant quote in the comments:
“Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.” — Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith, Hope (2001)
Leftism is about destroying K-strategists. Gun control is about weakening them so the savages in society can attack them with greater ease and safety, and the government has reason to attack them should they try to follow their instincts and take measures to become capable to defend themselves.
As things turn K and K-strategists hold greater sway, we can expect the K’s to drive government to make the environment more amenable to our survival, and less amenable to leftists getting us killed through treason and perfidy. It is a nice feeling.
-- http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/florida-strengthens-stand-your-ground/
The Senate blinked in a fight over a standard of evidence, sending a fix to the state’s “stand your ground” law to Gov. Rick Scott.
The House on Friday voted to “insist” that the Senate accept its amendment to Sen. Rob Bradley‘s bill (SB 128), which aims to streamline claims of self-defense.
Last month, it OK’d the bill but changed the burden of proof to “clear and convincing evidence,” a lower threshold than the Senate’s “beyond a reasonable doubt,” to overcome self-defense.
By Friday evening, the Senate finally accepted the change on a 22-14 vote…
The Republican majority in the Legislature wants to shift the burden to prosecutors, making them disprove a claim of self-defense. A state Supreme Court decision had put the onus on the defendant to show self-defense.
Democrats have inveighed against the measure, saying it would encourage bad actors to injure, even kill, and then claim self-defense.
Brilliant quote in the comments:
“Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.” — Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith, Hope (2001)
Leftism is about destroying K-strategists. Gun control is about weakening them so the savages in society can attack them with greater ease and safety, and the government has reason to attack them should they try to follow their instincts and take measures to become capable to defend themselves.
As things turn K and K-strategists hold greater sway, we can expect the K’s to drive government to make the environment more amenable to our survival, and less amenable to leftists getting us killed through treason and perfidy. It is a nice feeling.
-- http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/florida-strengthens-stand-your-ground/