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Across the United States, in most places it's legal to kill someone in self-defense even if you could run away.
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#standyourground #gunsinamerica #gundeaths #gunsales #NRA #ALEC #dutytoretreat #firearms #gundata #selfdefense
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#standyourground #gunsinamerica #gundeaths #gunsales #NRA #ALEC #dutytoretreat #firearms #gundata #selfdefense
Since 2005, the NRA and the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council have helped make these so-called "stand your ground" laws the norm. #standyourground #gundeaths #NRA #ALEC #dutytoretreat #firearms #gundata #selfdefense MORE: america.cgtn.com/2023/05/05/did…
As more states adopted the recommended language of special interest groups, gun manufacturing rose significantly. READ MORE: america.cgtn.com/2023/05/05/did…
#standyourground #gunsinamerica #gundeaths #gunsales #NRA #ALEC #dutytoretreat #firearms #gundata #selfdefense
#standyourground #gunsinamerica #gundeaths #gunsales #NRA #ALEC #dutytoretreat #firearms #gundata #selfdefense
1/ Who is to blame for America’s gun madness? The answer is simple sltrib.com/opinion/letter… "GOP politicians on the take, greed driven gun manufacturers without a heart or soul, #ALEC, the #KochNetwork and a small minority of truly sick #gun addicts all have blood on their hands"
2/ "When #Koch became a leader of #ALEC back in 1995, ALEC's publications proudly touted its #gun agenda and the #SecondAmendment right to bear arms, in contrast to it's recent attempts to distance itself from this agenda." prwatch.org/news/2012/05/1…
3/ In 2005, #NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer pushed the "Castle Doctrine" bill to create legal immunity for shooters claiming self-defense. It was "unanimously adopted by the private and public sector members at that meeting."
The bill came to be known as "Stand Your Ground"
The bill came to be known as "Stand Your Ground"
"I have seen war.
I have seen the dead.
I have seen blood running from the wounded.
I have seen cities destroyed.
I have seen children starving.
I HATE #WAR!"
(Franklin D. #Roosevelt, 1936. New York)
#StandYourGround #VNV
@ZelenskyyUa @MelnykAndrij
I have seen the dead.
I have seen blood running from the wounded.
I have seen cities destroyed.
I have seen children starving.
I HATE #WAR!"
(Franklin D. #Roosevelt, 1936. New York)
#StandYourGround #VNV
@ZelenskyyUa @MelnykAndrij
Winston #Churchill 1940
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
WE SHALL #NEVERSURRENDER
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
WE SHALL #NEVERSURRENDER
This is your world
These are your people
You can live for yourself today
Or help build tomorrow
for everyone
Das ist deine Welt
Das sind deine Mitmenschen
Du kannst heute für dich leben
Oder für alle die Zukunft von morgen aufbauen
#VictoryNotVengeance
These are your people
You can live for yourself today
Or help build tomorrow
for everyone
Das ist deine Welt
Das sind deine Mitmenschen
Du kannst heute für dich leben
Oder für alle die Zukunft von morgen aufbauen
#VictoryNotVengeance
1/ ZIMMERMAN DEFENSE IN REALITY FL GOP NRA #StandYourGround COURTESY MARION HAMMER—THE ARCHITECT OF STAND YOUR GROUND—MURDER AT WILL, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, IS GOP FLORIDA NRA LOBBYIST FOR DECADES—PROMOTE GUN RIGHTS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DECADES—MARION HAMMER AND HER FL GOP FLUNKIES.
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/… 2/ NRA Lobbyist Marion Hammer on propose assault weapons ban:
“How do you tell a 10-year-old little girl who got a Ruger 10/22 w/pink stock for b-day that her rifle is an assault weapon & she has to turn it over to govt or be arrested felony possession?”
“How do you tell a 10-year-old little girl who got a Ruger 10/22 w/pink stock for b-day that her rifle is an assault weapon & she has to turn it over to govt or be arrested felony possession?”
#ALEC ATTACKS - How evangelicals and corporations captured state lawmaking to safeguard white supremacy and corporate power alecattacks.org #KochNetwork
A report from the Center for Constitutional Rights, Dream Defenders, Palestine Legal, The Red Nation, and the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights re #ALEC #KochNetwork
In 2012, 17-year-old Black teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman near his father’s home in Florida. One year after his death, a jury found his killer not guilty of second-degree murder or manslaughter, citing Florida’s #standyourground law.
#ALEC's States & Nation Policy Summit opens at a Westin resort in Scottsdale on Wednesday with an agenda touching on several of it's core principles including “election integrity”, #privatization of #education and support for #homeschooling, and protection for #BigPharma 1/6
Also on Wednesday, #ALEC and the Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-#LGBT coalition devoted to re-criminalising homosexuality in the US in the name of Christianity are co-hosting a dinner. #Christofascists prwatch.org/news/2019/12/1… 2/6
Rightwing ‘bill mill’ accused of sowing #racist and white supremacist policies theguardian.com/us-news/2019/d… A report published on Tuesday by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other advocacy groups charges #ALEC with propagating #WhiteSupremacy 3/6
