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Would you favor a "stand your ground" law in your state?
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No 48% 67519
Yes 44% 61948
Don't know 8% 11509
Total votes: 140976
This is not a scientific poll
I don't waste my time on those polls. There are millions of hits to CNN.com everyday and only about 28ooo folks have voted. Nobody pay attention to these. Just a fun diversion for folks to do at lunch time (if they even find the poll buried at the bottom of the 'US' page
Very true. I have a family member that had never heard of the 'stand your ground' law, but was telling me that it needed to be repealed. I asked them if they knew what the definition of the law was, and they had no clue. 'Just another open mind waiting to be told what to think.
Iv'e discussed this with ignorant posters on other forums. None of them have actually read the law. Most want to repel it as they believe you can walk up to somebody start a fight and shoot them if they fight back. Which clearly is not true.
776.041 Use of force by aggressor. —The justification described in the preceding sections of this chapter is not available to a person who:
(1) ...
(2) Initially provokes the use of force against himself or herself, ..
most people that listen to CNN or MSNBC have no clue what the "stand your ground law" actually means.....except Trayvon caught a bullet and Zimmerman might walk because of it.
Yes: Froze at 27839. I went back 5 min later and voted again. It was still at 27839. BS through and through.
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