re: #10 Daniel Ballard

The read I have has some legal support.

The read I has does too— like the case history of the law. By ‘legal support’, do you mean the opinion of your friend?

If your point is that your read is the approach of Florida police, you are likely right.

No, it’s the approach of the Florida courts, which interpret this law.

But it’s still a bad read.

Then why are you suggesting it needs to be changed?

Bad enough to fly in the stated intent on the creators of the law.

When you say ‘creator’, you don’t mean the person that actually came up with the idea for the law, right? You mean the sponsor of it, who used the ALEC template.

Thought experiment-Would we get that read in a place like Los Angeles from LAPD and the DA if we had the same law on the books? Can you support the idea it would with anything concrete?

You can’t support thought experiments with anything concrete. But sure— this same law, in California, should get the same reading. it defines your right to use lethal force at the moment of attack.

The contention is that Zimmerman placed himself outside of this law by his pursuit of Trayvon. Are you contending the pursuit was illegal?

What have you to say to Mr. Weissmans view?

That’s what I”m responding to, isn’t it?