This is unbelievable. Insanity is just outside my door.
License to Murder
The NRA is working to pass a law that makes murder legal in the United States. It’s been called the “Shoot First,” “Make My Day,” or “Deadly Force” law, but call it what you want, it’s a License to Murder. That’s because instead of requiring anyone who feels threatened to retreat when possible, it allows them to fire at will, regardless of the consequences. One killer has already been set free, and other criminals and their lawyers are already drooling at the thought of using the NRA’s “Shoot First” law as a legal defense.
“Shoot First” is dangerous and unnecessary. It’s a license to murder, and, if the NRA has its way, it’s coming soon to a state near you.
With all the insanity going on in the White House and Congress, the NSA, the lock-step Republicans and religious wingnuts one can only ‘imagine’ the Land of the Free citizens if this law passed.
Just imagine all the times we’ve been mad enough to shoot first and ask questions later in the political forum. Now, imagine Christmas shopping at Walmart..
Please feel free to add your scenarios.
The wild wild West is just around the corner. And hey, if we don’t like a representaives bill being presented on the house floor we could just stand up and “POP” him ..Next!
Here’s a link you can go to to protest this insane piece of legislature
It says, in effect, if you feel threatened, you may shoot the person who has inspired this feeling, wherever you are. I think maybe before you could only shoot them on your property or in your home, but now you can do it also in public places.
I would caution, though, that it would in my opinion, be extremely unwise for ethnic minorities to put this law into practice, and for mainstream Americans, it would probably be prudent to ascertain that the family of the individual you plan to shoot has little or no resources to seek legal redress, or at the very least, make sure he has less than you do.
For those who are not interested in shooting anybody, this would be a good time to familiarize yourself with restaurants in your area that deliver, and obtain a Netflix subscription and plan to do your shopping online, as these are measures that will help you transition to avoiding public places.
I’ve been pondering what kind of gun case would match best with the decor of a cave since it seems some or most of us may have to go subterranean in the near future. I’m not completely joking.
And it certainly seems to have all technological comforts one might require.
I can’t understand why we haven’t followed the pizza delivery guy to the cave after a wiretapped phone pizza order of bin Laden’s.
But will businesses stop offering pizza delivery under these circumstances? Their insurance will go up, and the pool of folks wanting the job will drop quickly. Already a problem in some parts of many cities.
You know the ones you see on Fox News being deployed to investigate the reported suspicious package in a car.
I bet if one of our investigative supersleuths here looks into this they will find that this robot industry is a strong lobbyist for this law. 😉
I’ve asked myself that very thing. When Florida passed that law, most of us realized that owning a gun wasn’t going to really keep us safe. I’m not going to shoot anyone, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to change my life to suit the wackos. The people that I really feel threatened by are not that close, and they’re heavily armed and protected.
Why stop at one gun? (Betcha can’t buy just one!) And while we’re at it, perhaps an armored hummer too. The Road Warrior comes to mind.
armor
One thing I wonder about is those who want their guns, on both sides of the political spectrum haven’t made much of an outrage statement against this potential future law. That concerns me. Are guns that important to those who have and want them?
All the more reason they will have to enforce Marshall Law?
According to the “founding fathers,” everyone was supposed to have a gun to keep a government from enforcing martial law, I thought.
A recent Diary here gives an example of how this doesn’t work too well.
More on that story Outrage
The Cory Maye case is just about the ugliest nexus of race, civil rights violations, southern juries and our criminal justice system that I can think of.
Let’s summarize: Cops mistakenly break down the door of a sleeping man, late at night, as part of drug raid. Turns out, the man wasn’t named in the warrant, and wasn’t a suspect. The man, frigthened for himself and his 18-month old daughter, fires at an intruder who jumps into his bedroom after the door’s been kicked in. Turns out that the man, who is black, has killed the white son of the town’s police chief. He’s later convicted and sentenced to death by a white jury. The man has no criminal record, and police rather tellingly changed their story about drugs (rather, traces of drugs) in his possession at the time of the raid.
Cory Maye is now on death row in Mississippi.
I think this general issue should be asked of every potential candidate. What happens if an officer/agent/private-sec-contr is hurt or killed in a sneek and peek warrantless search?
there’s the case of Frank Lobato, age 63, who was in bed when police climbed into his second floor bedroom window looking for Lobato’s nephew. An officer allegedly saw “something shiny” in Lobato’s hand and fired, killing him.
The only “shiny” thing found after the shooting was a soda can lying on the floor near the bed.
The officer who shot Lobato was suspended for 90 days. Last month, however, the suspension was reduced to 50 days, and the officer was awarded 40 days’ back pay.
ANY political candidate running for election should be questioned on his/her views on the subject. More people are going to get bent further out of shape than I get. Most of them aren’t as reasonable as we are…;)
There are too many issues involved. If any law enforcement agent, PMC or security agent enters private property without the owners’ permission, the safety and well being of that emtity should not be the responsibility of the homeowner. Any condition could arise to present a danger after the homeowner leaves. What happens if the agent ‘assumes’ no one is home and is killed in a way similar to cases stated here?
I’ll bet the propagandist piece in the diary misportrays it.
Ratpub birth control, abortion and eugenics all rolled up into one.
Here’s the TV commercial.
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(Voiceover): “Nuthin’ personal. Just business. Just culling the herd…”
“Bada BING!!!”
(Image of a good looking young white man singlehandedly offing a mixed race gang of obvious perps. The Ratpub version of affirmative action. “We kill WHITE bad guys, too. Just not as many”.)
(Voiceover):”Survival of the fittest.”
“Like…Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston.”
(Images of those two doddering, cholesterol poisoned fools in their so-called primes.)
“The 9 MM Soylent Green Model Remington.”
“Available at your local health food and survivalist store.”
“And Wal-Mart, too!!!”
“YUM!!!”
“Get ’em now while supplies last!!!”
(Fade out with image of a heavily armored SUV with a couple of dead human carcasses tied on the hood like shot deer.)
(Voiceover): “Beef. It’s what’s for dinner.”
Yum.
THAT’LL solve the population problem.
Planet Of The Apes.
The REAL story.
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psssstt …you forgot Abramoff’s production of Red Scorpion for a cameo.
Franklin Foer: Jack and Dolph’s Excellent Adventure
Lobbyist Abramoff got his start in show biz
So when will the NRA campaign to allow everyone their own tactical nuke commence?
I’ve always been amused by libertarian acquaintances who (otherwise reasonably sane) really believe the second amendment will protect them from an evil government . . .
5 years worth of comments to deep mine and nowhere does it say whether or not I own firearms.
And the Rocky Mountain News thinks it would be a good idea to extend the law in Colorado to businesses.
Leaves out that the Fla. law, and similar bills, posit not just that one “feel threatened,” but that this must be a well-grounded fear before the defense is available, and a jury must find the fear well grounded, with burden of preponderance lying with the shooter. You’re not going to see all that many folks risking a murder conviction on their ability to convince a jury their fear is reasonable when it’s not, Bernie Goetz notwithstanding.
The way it works in Florida is by social rank: Those of high social rank are reasonable to feel threatened by those of low social rank, and have a right to kill them.
I can see us returning to the days of blood feud. This is the default when justice stops being.
Maybe not yet. Maybe we can stop this bill.