Senate panel votes down self-defense bill SB719 that tried to confuse already clear law in Louisiana.

Legislation inspired by Florida’s Trayvon Martin case failed in a Senate committee Tuesday amid concerns that it would cloud state law

First, the case of Martin/Zimmerman is not yet finalized so what we have here is a clear case of “fixin’ what ain’t broken.” But what is more interesting is that the person introducing the bill, Sen. Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb refused to clarify its language even though everybody told her that it made a hash out of the current law. If one was to be suspicious, we could say that muddying the current law was the original intention in the hopes of coming back later and strike Stand Your Ground out of the books.

Then again it could be just plain stupidity in Ms. Dorsey-Colomb’s part. We are talking politicians here.

Days of our Trailers: @CSGV Defends Spousal Abuse.

Paraphrasing Wayne LaPierre: They are willing to certain amount of killing if it advances their cause. And Spousal Abuse is perfect for them: If the man shots the wife, the reason is the gun, not the abusive behavior of the husband. If the abused woman defends herself, she had other choices, but the availability of guns and the “culture of killing promoted by the NRA” is to blame.

They get double the blood for the same tap dancing. Vlad Tepes was not this bloodthirsty.

Rodney King On Trayvon Martin: ‘Luckily I Got My Attack Seen On Tape’ .

And we all know you were an angel before the beat down who blew the multi millon settlement in hookers and crack.

First Mike Tyson, now Rodney King. Who is next? O.J. Simpson?

Georgia Grandmother Foils Robbery By Getting Into Shootout With Suspects.

Critter was given a ride to the local hospital with a leak in his chest. I keep saying it, this is the Year of the Lady Dragon and old Dragons are specially dangerous: they reached old age not for being stupid, cute and cuddly.

It is good to know that Florida has traditions, one of them is Human Sacrifice by Media Pressure and Court Of Law. Yesterday I re-read Black’s Law by Roy Black and specifically the Alvarez case a Miami Police Officer who was basically steamrolled in order to calm down racial tensions.

If you read the book and specially the Alvarez case, you will see names that are still making noise today and in one case, the concept of human sacrifice is not an exaggeration on my part and the lessons were learned and put to work by a top government official in this administration.

Update: The photo is from the The Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Volcanic Eruption. Photographer’s name is Carlos Alvarado.

Thanks to Robert for the link.

…check out these two cases:

Beard v. United States – 158 U.S. 550 (1895)

The defendant was where he had the right to be, when the deceased advanced upon him in a threatening manner and with a deadly weapon, and if the accused did not provoke the assault, and had at the time reasonable grounds to believe, and in good faith believed, that the deceased intended to take his life, or do him great bodily harm, he was not obliged to retreat nor to consider whether he could safely retreat, but was entitled to stand his ground and meet any attack made upon him with a deadly weapon in such way and with such force as, under all the circumstances, he at the moment, honestly believed, and had reasonable grounds to believe, were necessary to save his own life or to protect himself from great bodily injury.

And within the decision, there is another case at state level (Erwin v. State, 29 Ohio St.) that serves as a example that Stand Your Ground is not something that came out of the twisted mind of Wayne LaPierre day before yesterday:

“A very brief examination of the American authorities makes it evident that the ancient doctrine as to the duty of a person assailed to retreat as far as he can before he is justified in repelling force by force has been greatly modified in this country, and has with us a much narrower application than formerly. Indeed, the tendency of the American mind seems to be very strongly against the enforcement of any rule which requires a person to flee when assailed, to avoid chastisement, or even to save human life, and that tendency is well illustrated by the recent decisions of our courts bearing on the general subject of the right of self-defense. The weight of modern authority, in our judgment, establishes the doctrine that when a person, being without fault and in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel force by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self-defense, his assailant is killed, he is justifiable”

And the next case:

Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921)

The law has grown, and even if historical mistakes have contributed to its growth it has tended in the direction of rules consistent with human nature. Many respectable writers agree that if a man reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily harm from his assailant he may stand his ground and that if he kills him he has not succeeded the bounds of lawful self defence. That has been the decision of this Court. Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

I urge you to read both cases and to follow the other cases that are mentioned in both decisions, specially if you are Floridian. The Gun Control groups are after Stand Your Ground and we know they have no qualms about lying and deceiving to make it happen. We need to bombard Governor Scott’s Task Force with legal precedents and not just “feelings.”

We have the legal ammo, let’s use it.