Milo;355958 wroteAs for your last bit, I am going to ask for a link, please. My understanding of the "Stand Your Ground" statutes is that there is no requirement to retreat, as there is here. I think it has to be in the "heat of the moment", as it were.
Glad you asked for a link (I cherrypicked as much as possible):
Florida 'stand your ground' law yields some shocking outcomes depending on how law is applied | Tampa Bay Times
•" During an argument at a 2009 party in Fort Myers, Omar Bonilla fired his gun into the ground and beat Demarro Battle, then went inside and gave the gun to a friend. If Battle feared for his life, he had time to flee. Instead, he got a gun from his car and returned to shoot Bonilla three times, including once in the back. Battle was not charged in the slaying."
Two men fell into the water while fighting on a dock. When one started climbing out of the water, the other shot him in the back of the head, killing him. He was acquitted after arguing "stand your ground."
A Seventh-day Adventist was acting erratically, doing cartwheels through an apartment complex parking lot, pounding on cars and apartment windows and setting off alarms. A tenant who felt threatened by the man's behavior shot and killed him. He was not charged.
• A Citrus County man in a longstanding dispute with a neighbor shot and killed the man one night in 2009. He was not charged even though a witness and the location of two bullet wounds showed the victim was turning to leave when he was shot.
"Even chasing and killing someone over a drug buy can be considered standing your ground.
Anthony Gonzalez Jr. was part of a 2010 drug deal that went sour when someone threatened Gonzalez with a gun. Gonzalez chased the man down and killed him during a high-speed gunbattle through Miami streets."
All of these things are why non-deputized people like Zimmerman "Zimmerman, as a civilian, is under no obligation to do any of those things, nor should he be, as he has no "official" status viz. law enforcement." should not be allowed to carry a concealed weapon. You can't have it both ways. The LAW allows concealed weapons and shoot people you get into an argument with. Read the article...carry and conceal combined with stand your ground = more death. Not less. In this case the law is an ass. Pretty simple.
My favorite part is this law is supported by people who think Jesus is the highest authority. Hypocrites.
