From Steve Perry of Cherry Poppin Daddies Fame, but this is from his side-project White Hot Odyssey:
I have mixed feelings about this:
Marissa Alexander, a Florida woman awaiting a new trial in a “stand your ground” case, was released from jail Wednesday night on a bond totaling $200,009 for three separate charges….In 2012, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing what she says was a warning shot to scare off her allegedly abusive husband during a dispute. No one was hurt.
Alexander tried to use Florida’s “stand your ground” law, but the judge threw out her self-defense claim.
On one hand, its hard to claim “Self Defense” when you admit to firing a warning shot. Guns are deadly force implements, and discharging a weapon is a dangerous and potentially deadly act. Further you lose a LOT of credibility in a claim of immediate threat of serious bodily harm if you intentionally fire a gun not at your alleged attacker.
Still on the other hand I don’t think anything presented in this case expressly shows she was NOT in immediate danger when she fired.
What are your thoughts?
**UPDATE** Since this case is so old I’d forgotten many of the details listed by readers, also there were some details I wasn’t aware of. Read the links in the comments, this sounds like straight-up assault on Behalf of Ms. Alexander. Bad Justice tag added.
Thanks to all who refreshed me on the details.
LONG day in the lab, greeted at home by a cranky baby.
Time for a well-needed beer and some chill-out music. Enjoy!
Speaking about libertarian philosophy is a minefield because of the diversity and lack of Libertarian Party in the United States. Still I think Julie knocks this one out of the park!
Personally I’m a disenfranchised Republican who doesn’t have a set religious base who wants gobs of individual liberty returned to the people and smaller government. Frankly I think the best thing for libertarianism in the United States is to elect somebody like Rand Paul as President, and supporting the more liberty-minded platforms of the Tea Party, and shunning their love of military action, and Social Security and Medicade.
I will certainly say the heavy hand of the “Progressives” who have taken over the Democrat party, and the general lack of support for Big Government Republicans like George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney has really put a shine on the people presently pushing for liberty and libertarianism in this country.
The mind can both heal you and hurt you!
Also the double-blind study is VERY important for ANY scientific study, because most scientists design a study because they predict a certain result, and that simply prediction might push them to interpret ambiguous data, or noisy data in the favor of their initial hypothesis.
You will notice that in all anti-gun studies there are NO Blinds in place. The researcher is paid to produce an outcome, and AMAZINGLY that outcome is the end result. Thankfully for those studies the methods are often so skewed you can see how only one outcome is possible!
So we KNOW he makes great holsters, and belts too! (BTW check out the cool buckles he offers for the belts! LOVE that Steam Punk one!) He also has a gun shop where he sells guns!
Of course many of you have heard that Dennis recent underwent Bypass Surgery, and he’s doing fine, but there have been delays to holster production.
But Dragon Leatherworks doesn’t just make leather stuff! They have T-shirts and Mugs now!
Now I’m one of those guys who has too many t-shirts. I’m constantly retiring worn shirts that probably could be worn for another year or two to the endless supply of soon-to-be bore patches. Still that Mug looks really nice! May have to buy myself a Christmas Present!
Also if you click through these links, or the link to your left on the sidebar I get….NOTHING! Dennis is a good friend and has hooked me up with more gear than I deserve, and he owes me NOTHING!
Feel better soon, buddy!
Why would anybody have a BAT?
A northeastern Arizona man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally beating a victim with a baseball bat….Woody admitted that he entered a home on the Navajo Nation on April 5 and beat the victim in the head and body with an aluminum baseball bat.
The victim died the following day from injuries sustained in the beating.
We live in a world where children can simply walk into any sporting goods store and buy an aluminum murder bat, no questions asked! We NEED common sense reform!
…Or at least that’s what they WOULD be saying if they cared about people who didn’t die a “Gun Death”.
Looks pretty silly! Neat little experiment!
I would have thought the 10mm would have gotten more velocity out of the long barrel. Of course that’s weaksauce factory ammo. Hotter loads you get a LOT more.
Just like how the “Gun Show Loophole” isn’t a Loophole, and has nothing to do with Gun shows. The “Affordable Care Act” isn’t affordable at all.
More “Progressive” lies…hell just the name “Progressive” implies that millions of people now without healthcare after a bill that claimed MORE people getting better health insurance…and of course once employer plans get the axe we’ll be looking at tens of millions without insurance…maybe even me!
Also this one is pretty scary!
This baby’s not on board with ObamaCare.
Long Islander Cornelius Kelly found it would be no problem to secure a family plan for his wife and three older kids through New York’s health-care exchange, but his 18-month-old daughter was out in the cold. The baby would need her own insurance policy….When Kelly called a representative, he was told his daughter had to be 2 before she could be covered under a family plan. He would have to buy a separate plan for her, at monthly premiums that ranged between $117.21 and $369.31. The cost would be on top of a family plan with premiums ranging from $810.84 to $2,554.71 a month.
Kelly said he had been paying about $1,000 a month.
Progress….
There is a major problem with one of the lines in this article:
A gun-rights activist is taking the city of Phoenix back to court over its refusal to put up a bus-stop ad that declares “Guns Save Lives.”
The case is as much about the First Amendment as it is about the Second. The Arizona Republic reports that the three-year legal battle is heading to the Arizona Court of Appeals on Tuesday.
The decision could have sweeping implications for free speech in the state, and on whether advertisers should be limited in what topics they can and cannot address on city property.
The battle started when the city removed 50 of the ads, put up by activist Alan Korwin, from city bus stops.
This case has NOTHING to do with the 2nd Amendment. The 2nd Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms. The right to talk about guns, and to research if indeed guns do save lives is all in the 1st Amendment.
Also I would say there IS a 1st Amendment right in what can be published on the property of others. There are blogs I will not cite or discuss. They’re on my much talked-about “Black List”, I have no issue that those blogs exist, or continue to operate, but I will not use MY blog to further their garbage.
Still this is PUBLIC space, and the rules state that if you pay for the signage you can post the signage. The Public is the Government, and the Government both has no rights, and has the Amendments of the Constitution, of both the United States, and the State of Arizona to remind it what it can and cannot do.
Hopefully the courts will note that this is one of those things it cannot do, and it is in the wrong.
