Shoot First

So Florda is saying that people have the right to use deadly force against “attackers” they precieve as threatening. Or to use a different phrase, someone picking a fight can kill scary people with immunity from criminal prosecution or civil action for using deadly force. Such questions as how the scary people feel about this is overlooked, since they’re all oversized black drug gang terrorists anyway. Because there’s no other method of averting dangerous situations than to stand your ground and shoot first.

A stressed drunk soccer mom is going to blow people away in the public library over late fees, and get away with it. In the meantime, this governing system seems like a crock of shite to me.

That someone may instigate a bar fight, get scared, pull a gun on someone (arbitrary, it need not be the agressor), shoot and kill them, and is able to gain legal immunity from consequences because they were scared, scares me.

A retired police officer in St. Petersburg, writing in the St. Petersburg Times, described the legislature’s bill as the “citizens’ right to shoot others on the street if they feel threatened” and asked, “Are they nuts?”