Here’s execrable AG Eric Holder
(Washington Post) Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. strongly condemned “stand your ground†laws Tuesday, saying the measures “senselessly expand the concept of self-defense†and may encourage “violent situations to escalate.â€
Except “stand your ground” wasn’t part of the Zimmerman trial, mainly because stand your ground drops out of play when someone is actually beating the snot out of you in a “ground and pound” style. But, Holder would prefer that people instead just run away. I wonder if Holder will require all the law enforcement officials under his jurisdiction to run away if they feel threatened?
“These laws try to fix something that was never broken,†Holder told cheering delegates of the annual convention of the NAACP, which is pressing him to file civil rights charges against Zimmerman. “The list of resulting tragedies is long and, unfortunately, has victimized too many who are innocent.â€
Really?
(Daily Caller) African Americans benefit from Florida’s “Stand Your Ground†self-defense law at a rate far out of proportion to their presence in the state’s population, despite an assertion by Attorney General Eric Holder that repealing “Stand Your Ground†would help African Americans.
Black Floridians have made about a third of the state’s total “Stand Your Ground†claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black percentage of Florida’s population. The majority of those claims have been successful, a success rate that exceeds that for Florida whites.
Let’s repeat that
But approximately one third of Florida “Stand Your Ground†claims in fatal cases have been made by black defendants, and they have used the defense successfully 55 percent of the time, at the same rate as the population at large and at a higher rate than white defendants, according to a Daily Caller analysis of a database maintained by the Tampa Bay Times.  Additionally, the majority of victims in Florida “Stand Your Ground†cases have been white.
Can we call Holder a racist for wanting to do away with State stand your ground laws? Of course, it’s easy for Holder to make the call: he has all sorts of protection by people who are armed. Strange that Holder hasn’t seemed too concerned about all the people who couldn’t stand their ground against the assault weapons his employees smuggled into Mexico.
I’d love to see a poll amongst Democrats asking the question “if someone is threatening you, should you be able to “Stand Your Ground” with a weapon?
