What was the surest winning bet in Florida last week? That the legislative committee hearing on repealing the state’s controversial Stand Your Ground law would end up with a lopsided No vote. The roll-back effort never had a chance.

But you can’t fault the repeal’s supporters for trying. Not with a self-defense law that gives immunity to someone who shoots first and asks questions later.

via Stand your ground law needs clarification – Editorials – MiamiHerald.com.

I will grant you that it is a nice talking point for the average Anti, but that the editors of a major newspaper in the country do not realize the sheer stupidity of the cliché is nothing short of pitiful.

These are the idiots that not only think that self-defense is a sporting event, but that the bad guy won the coin toss and get to injure/kill you first.

And then we have:

And there’s the major problem with Florida’s Stand Your Ground statute. It is so loosely written that the self-defense claim often is interpreted differently in separate cases.