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Comment Re:drug dealer excuses (Score 1) 995

Drug dealer shoots innocent bystander is not protected by Stand your Ground law. Only the perp's relatives cannot sue. That is assuming the dead person is found to be the perp. Stand Yorur Ground laws say I don't have to retreat from an aggressor, not I'm allowed to be an aggressor and shoot whomever I want.

Show me one case where an aggressor or a felon (drug dealer) shot anyone and got away with it because of a "stand your ground law".

Now, I'm not actually in favor of "Stand your Ground". I think a weapon holder should be required to retreat if possible. But blaming
"Stand Your Ground" laws in this or other cases is silly. As the parent said "cite one case".

Zimmerman is charged. Not because he "stood his ground" but because he initiated the confrontation. 2nd degree murder is
the right charge. The court will decide if he is guilty.

"Florida's Stand Your Ground law explicitly creates immunity for wrongful death suits." from an aggressor or his family or his estate.
Not from anyone else.

Comment Disable the steering wheel airbag. (Score 1) 756

and wear the belt/shoulder harness. I know two people
that totaled full size American pick-ups in collisions
with trees (the both swear it was the tree's fault). One
got a broken kneck from the airbag. The other was
unscathed; the truck was built before airbags were
required in pick-ups.

A fire captain told me that he had never seen a dead
body in a car accident with a person wearing the
belt/should harness. He'd seen a lot of dead bodies in car
accidents where deceased had no belts on.

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