The Right to Defend Yourself [Stand Your Ground] is not the Problem. White Supremacy/Racism is the Problem.
From [HERE] Senators Use Trayvon's Mom as Prop to Discuss Non-law. The mother of a 17-year-old Black boy shot by a racist suspect told a panel of U.S. senators Tuesday that state stand your ground self-defense laws do not work and must be amended, reviving the politically charged gun control issue.
Democrats who hold majority power in the Senate and are trying to keep it supported the call by Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin. Republicans, led by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a possible 2016 presidential candidate, said the matter should be left to the states that passed the laws. [MORE]
The plain meaning of so-called Stand Your Ground Laws is not racist. "Stand your ground" is a self-defense, criminal defense raised at trial that allows for the use of deadly force when it is reasonable for a non-aggressor/victim to do so. In states which have variations of this law a person does not have a legal duty to retreat before using self defense to defend themselves under life threatening conditions that are reasonably apparent to the victim. Most states, including D.C. have a version of the law. [MORE]
That such laws allow white people to execute non-white people is deception created by the media. The operating system (OS) of White supremacy is the cause and effect of white people's genocidal conduct towards non-whites; recent incidents are part of this observable pattern. Neely Fuller explains that a "non-law" is any law that is used in such a manner as to promote injustice. Here, it is the application of Stand Your ground laws by racist citizens, prosecutors, jurors and judges that creates injustice for non-whites - as would the racist enforcement and prosecution of a drug law or a traffic ordinance.
(All were the Aggressors: -Michael David Dunn, a white man who shot an unarmed Black teen to death last December in Jacksonville and then fled [MORE]; John Spooner, a white man convicted of murdering an unarmed black 13 year old in front of his mother in an unprovoked shooting on May 31 [MORE], Daniel Quinnell, a white man who shot a Black man in the face multiple times with a pellet gun outside of a Walmart b/c he thought he was "a muslim" & then called him a "nigger with a white girl," (ironically the Black man retreated even though he had a gun in his pocket [MORE] George Zimmerman, a white man who shot an unarmed 17 year old in Florida after stalking & confronting him [MORE], and Phillip Walker Sailors, a white man who killed an unarmed Latino man as he drove away (retreated) because "he felt threatened" when he pulled into his driveway.[MORE])
Unfortunately, misled advocates are now unknowingly convincing non-whites to rally against their own rights to self-defense. (Self defense is intelligent.)
Democratic members of Congress busily engaged in their re-election efforts for next year's voting round (with 35 seats at stake in the Senate, all 435 seats in the Republican-controlled House and the majorities of both chambers hanging in the balance) are all to willing to pretend once again to do something of tangible value for non-whites. Missing the point, if white men began drowning Black children those deceived by white supremacy would blame the water and advocate for its regulation![MORE].
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