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Related: About this forumLast Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Stand Your Ground
John Oliver takes a look at why stand your ground laws were created, who they protect, and, crucially, who they dont.
LittleGirl
(8,284 posts)And Rhiannon!
Upthevibe
(8,039 posts)Excellent!
Thanks for posting
Rhiannon12866
(205,237 posts)Maraya1969
(22,478 posts)have, in the back of their minds some fantasy of being able to kill a person, preferably a minority at some point - where they can say they were justified. These people just have a desire for violence that they have to keep under wraps.......but they secretly want to be violent and are just waiting for the right circumstance.
That guy Horn wanted to kill those men. And the people that clapped for him were glad that he killed them, obviously. It is the same as the ones who go to an execution and sit in the parking lot and cheer after it happens.
They are sick in the head.
KS Toronado
(17,208 posts)Is that they are overwhelmingly NRA Qpublicans who believe in the rule of law as they see it...
Merlot
(9,696 posts)when horn actually shot them in the back according to Olivers reporting.
KS Toronado
(17,208 posts)States need to be looking at all NRA inspired laws.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Women who shoot their domestic partners and claim self defense. From what I've read they usually are convicted.
Maybe that's a whole other show.
billh58
(6,635 posts)"stand your ground," and "self-help." When an abused domestic partner resorts to self-help in order to rid themselves of the abusive partner, they are usually in violation of the law and a crime is committed.
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n a looser sense, it can also refer to individuals taking the law into their own hands, usually through violence or other illegal behavior. It can lead to factions forming around the disputing parties and also to broad civil conflict.
Historically, self-help has been regarded as the recourse for injured parties when no courts are available that will accept jurisdiction. The dangers of self-help are often advanced as an argument against allowing a situation to develop in which people feel they have no judicial path to a remedy, or that the courts are too corrupt to render just decisions, and as the main reason why impartial courts are established in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help_(law)
Under most "Stand Your Ground" laws, the right to self defense is invoked by a "perceived" threat of harm which is often the subjective one-sided perspective of the survivor.
Edited to add: the link takes you to a different page. Add "_(law)" to the end of the link in the address box to get the correct page.