re: #153 kirkspencer

You’re right, I don’t like the National Review. I also don’t like Ian Tuttle. I’ve had to spend too many hours checking his alleged facts so as to identify which are complete, which are only half the story, and which are ‘truthy’.

Let’s take one example. Mr. Tuttle says the reason the court rejected “stand your ground” in the case of Ms. Alexander is that she pointed the weapon at Gray and the two children. If you read the court decision, however, you find that’s not the reason. Instead it’s much simpler: she didn’t shoot Mr. Gray. The court explicitly stated that SYG only applies in cases of death or injury.

No, if I want a ‘complete story’ it will not be from reading anything Mr. Tuttle writes.

Is FL law really this cosmically fucked up? If I understand correctly, Ms. Alexander would have needed to shoot Gray (preferably fatally, so he can’t tell his side of the story), and perhaps fatally shoot the children as well (to eliminate witnesses) in order to have a SYG defense available at trial.

Yeesh.