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Arkansas is set to add Stand Your Ground language to it's legal process for self defense......and then the writer of the news article gets the Zimmerman case wrong, again.....Stand Your Ground was never part of the Zimmerman defense...the anti-gunners lied and use it to attack self defense by armed civilians, and this so called journalist repeated the lie......
Zimmerman was on the ground getting pounded...he could not retreat, which is the main point to stand your ground defense...you have to have the ability to retreat for it to be a stand your ground defense...
Bill would add 'Stand Your Ground' protection to Arkansas self defense law
A bill set to make its way through the Arkansas legislature would alter the state’s self-defense laws and allow for people to use “stand your ground” provisions in deadly confrontations.
State representative Aaron Pilkington (R – Clarksville) says House Bill 1059 will clear up ambiguities and make Arkansas law line up with our neighboring states.
“there's nowhere in there where I call it a “stand your ground” bill,” Pilkington said. “I call it a right to protect yourself. Other people are calling it a stand your ground bill.”
The label is controversial because Florida neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman avoided jail after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, a black teenager, in 2012.
Unlike Florida, Arkansas would not have allowed Zimmerman to use the defense, and that’s surprising to some in Pilkington’s district.
(Zimmerman's defense team did not use Stand Your Ground, it was never part of the defense, and did not apply to his situation...)
“I had a constituent reach out to me letting me know that we weren't a stand your ground state and after kind of looking at the laws and how they were he was right,” Pilkington said. “We're one of the few states that are duty to retreat.”
Pilkington would take the retreat requirement out of the law. After the Martin shooting, critics predicted similar killings across the country.
Zimmerman was on the ground getting pounded...he could not retreat, which is the main point to stand your ground defense...you have to have the ability to retreat for it to be a stand your ground defense...
Bill would add 'Stand Your Ground' protection to Arkansas self defense law
A bill set to make its way through the Arkansas legislature would alter the state’s self-defense laws and allow for people to use “stand your ground” provisions in deadly confrontations.
State representative Aaron Pilkington (R – Clarksville) says House Bill 1059 will clear up ambiguities and make Arkansas law line up with our neighboring states.
“there's nowhere in there where I call it a “stand your ground” bill,” Pilkington said. “I call it a right to protect yourself. Other people are calling it a stand your ground bill.”
The label is controversial because Florida neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman avoided jail after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, a black teenager, in 2012.
Unlike Florida, Arkansas would not have allowed Zimmerman to use the defense, and that’s surprising to some in Pilkington’s district.
(Zimmerman's defense team did not use Stand Your Ground, it was never part of the defense, and did not apply to his situation...)
“I had a constituent reach out to me letting me know that we weren't a stand your ground state and after kind of looking at the laws and how they were he was right,” Pilkington said. “We're one of the few states that are duty to retreat.”
Pilkington would take the retreat requirement out of the law. After the Martin shooting, critics predicted similar killings across the country.