Perhaps most significantly, the bill injects even more legal protection for defendants by shifting the burden of proof to prosecutors even before trial. It establishes that once defendants make an initial case that they used deadly force in self-defense, the burden falls to the prosecutor to show that “the defendant’s use of force was not lawful.” This is already the burden of proof when Stand Your Ground and all other self-defense claims go to trial. In fact, some have argued that this burden of proof in self-defense cases is what made it so easy for Zimmerman to be acquitted.

via Everything You Need To Know About The Stand Your Ground Bills Advancing In Florida | ThinkProgress.

From Cornell University Law.

BURDEN OF PROOF
Generally used to describe the threshold that a party seeking to prove a fact in court must reach in order to have that fact legally established.  For example, in criminal cases, the burden of proving the defendant’s guilt is on the prosecution, and they must establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.  In civil cases, the plaintiff has the burden of proving his case by a preponderance of the evidence.The burden of proof is often said to be comprised of two distinct but related concepts: theburden of production, and the burden of persuasion.

So, Stand Your Ground is so bad, so evil that we are supposed to toss aside one of the basic tenets of our legal system, the presumption of Innocence,  and give the Prosecution a free ride to incarcerate people? How target-fixated these idiots can be that they are ready to cut their noses off to spite the face? Or is it that somehow they think this will never be  applied to them because they are special or above reproach?

In a sense, articles like this are a good thing. It shows people how far out of touch and how dangerous this section of the population that claim to be doing things “for the common good” can be.

But we knew it already. I am just amazed that they actually went ahead and confessed it in such an open form.

Probably straight from WWI trench warfare and now in the vaults of the Spanish Guardia Civil.

Uncle John calls ’em Millennial Orphans, springing from fractured homes and forming their own “families.” Some came from big money, and walked away. Virtually all have some college, and many graduated. They were force-fed the educational establishment’s progressive propaganda-pap until they puked — too smart to become good little automatons. For many, the big awakening came about 2009.
“Our teachers and professors had hammered us with America is evil, defy authority, capitalism kills and crap like that,” Lead Dog said. “Then all of a sudden it was don’t question authority; obey the government; embrace the collective. Don’t think, just obey. That’s when we started teaching ourselves.”
They discovered new heroes, the real revolutionaries — our founding fathers — and fell deeply in love with some neglected, derided old documents: the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution; the Bill of Rights. And they saw how far we’ve drifted from them.

via Unlikely Allies? | American Handgunner.

Freedom is contagious and there is no cure for it.

Hat Tip Rob M.

From Guns For Liberties
The classy folks at CeasefirePA doing their version of open and honest dialogue which included repeated use of the word parasite.

Imagine that treatment applied to one of them in a Pro Gun Rally, we would not stop hearing the word “bully” for three months.

Tromix’d Saiga-12 with Cadiz Works Mitigator Silencer

via Saiga-12 – Imgur <— click for more pics.

God Bless them for coming up with new & ingenious stuff with guns. But I am of the belief that if you need to get the Saiga with the 20 round drum, the incoming problem is bigger than making a wee bit of noise.

The detail of the internals of the silencer are very cool.

Take one billionaire former New York City mayor with a Napoleon complex, dress him in drag, and what do you get? “Moms” Demand Action for Gunsense in America. We’ve already been told that Moms Demand has “merged” with MAIG. But did you know that they’ve finally announced that they are just a “campaign” of MAIG? Here’s their “donate” page. Look closely at how they describe themselves and where they ask you to send the checks.

via Michael Bloomberg Demands Action | An NC Gun Blog.

Somehow the idea of a carpetbagger in drag gives lots of chuckles.

Now, I believe in Truth in Advertising so I modified the Moms logo to properly reflect their submissive role in the Bloomberg Household.

That is much better, isn’t?