Florida House speaker to hold hearings on stand-your-ground law

[Tx4obama]

Florida House speaker to hold hearings on stand-your-ground law

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford announced Friday that he will order hearings this fall on the state’s “stand your ground” law, a victory for the young protesters known as the Dream Defenders who have spent the past two weeks protesting at the Capitol.

“It’s a critical first step,” said Phillip Agnew, executive director of the Dream Defenders. “We’ve been here for three weeks. We know Democracy takes time. Progress takes time.”

They shouldn’t celebrate too hard. Weatherford assigned the task of chairing the hearings to a staunch supporter of the law, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach.

“I don’t support changing one damn comma of the stand your ground law,” Gaetz said Friday. “It would be reactionary and dangerous to make Floridians less safe to pacify uninformed protesters.”

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Full article here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/02/3539409/florida-house-speaker-to-hold.html

[Thinkingabout]

1. We know of one case in particular a Floridian was not safer, victim of a reactionary and

Dangerous Floridian wanna be cop.

[HockeyMom]

2. As a NON GUN OWNER in Florida,

that SYG puts ME at risk. No matter what they say, non-gun owners are still the majority.