MEDIA MANIPULATION . . . Last week saw a well-orchestrated media campaign by firearms opponents to castigate Florida's new law providing self-defense allowances already available in other states, with broadcast and print reporters using the same well-worn "Dodge City" analogy. That trite and never-fulfilled prediction was first wielded to attack the Sunshine State's adoption of concealed carry in the 1980s that preceded a significant drop in the crime rate. The bill recently enacted and signed by the governor removes an obligation to retreat for residents and visitors to Florida threatened by a criminal. "Claims that the new law will turn Florida into the Wild West are not only an insult to intelligent people but give a patently false portrait of what the bill actually does," Marion Hammer explains in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She adds, "Florida's new Castle Doctrine law reverses the pendulum that for far too long has swung in the direction of protecting the rights of criminals over the rights of their victims."
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The New Dodge City?
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Master Blaster
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Yeah some how these geniuses missed the fact that many states have had a no duty to retreat law on the books for decades, My state Delaware is one of them, If you fear for your life you can use deadly force under DE law. You dont have to be trapped, you dont have to guess what the bad guy is thinking, there is no duty to retreat, and no measurement of Disparate, equal or justifiable force in DE law.
Yet somehow the streets have not been running with blood for the last 50 years. Most all of the shootings in DE are committed by criminals shooting other criminals, which is already against the law.
Many other states have had the same law on the books for decades, but the newsjerks forgot to mention that.
Funny how selective they are in only presenting "FACTS" (an there were not any presented) that justify their opinions. Its great when you own the media, and can present you r own ILL informed opinion as a FACT isn't it????
Yet somehow the streets have not been running with blood for the last 50 years. Most all of the shootings in DE are committed by criminals shooting other criminals, which is already against the law.
Many other states have had the same law on the books for decades, but the newsjerks forgot to mention that.
Funny how selective they are in only presenting "FACTS" (an there were not any presented) that justify their opinions. Its great when you own the media, and can present you r own ILL informed opinion as a FACT isn't it????
You could take this quote back to 1987 and it would apply back then as well. Florida had enacted the country's first "Shall Issue" law and the media claimed Florida would turn into the Wild West.Claims that the new law will turn Florida into the Wild West are not only an insult to intelligent people but give a patently false portrait of what the bill actually does," Marion Hammer explains in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Spotted Owl
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Liberals have always used the Chicken Little "the sky is falling" argument any time a bill such as this one passes. The fact that nothing bad ever happens has not (and will not) prevented them from using this argument over and over again. Get used to it.
Florida??? I was going to guess Washington, D.C.The New Dodge City