Holder on common sense self defense: “A duty to retreat.”
“It’s time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods,” Holder said in a speech to the NAACP in which he again called the death of Trayvon Martin “unnecessary.”
“…we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.”
I’ll give him credit for at least specifying outside the home. Not that that will save us, when the federal prosecutions start. Because Holder clearly likes it the way it used to be, when we were all becoming afraid to even contemplate actively defending ourselves.
Screw Holder. “Stand your ground” laws got started because people were tired of being prosecuted and imprisoned for clear cases of self-defense – even inside their homes. America is not England, and will not become England if Americans will only remain Americans.
Which they certainly will not, if Holder and his bunch have their way.
Self defense of any type exercised by the sheeple, the great unwashed and benighted masses, is anathema to the progressives. Such “defiance” by a potential victim interferes with concept that all defense, subsistence and development will be provided by the totalitarian socialism so absolutely necessary for the survival of not only American sheeple, but the sheeple of the world community.
You would think that a lawyer like Holder would know that the English common law “duty to retreat…” is a “duty to retreat if retreat can be made in absolute safety to yourself and other innocents“.
When Zimmerman made the decision to use lethal force, the point at which he became in reasonable fear for his life, he was being straddled and beaten into unconsciousness. His ability to retreat in absolute safety at that point is arguable.
In relation to that, retreating safely, I have limited ability to do so these days. I am not even sure a strategic withdrawal in possible. I’l bet sure you can relate. I am forced by circumstances of health to stand my ground. Furthermore, despite a life spent working in physical situation including being a bouncer I am no longer in a position to be wrestling with teen age thugs. I’ll have to stand said ground armed.
That’s why I am counting in months the time between me and mine living in a state that doesn’t interfere with self defense and one that regard it the same way England does.
Which reminds me, I gotta send you an email, Joel.
There are usually reasonable people in my life with unreasonable viewpoints on this trial and aftermath. They seem to have trouble with “the concept of self-defense” and it is getting difficult to put up with them.