August24 stand your ground

I’m living in the land of the free . Once you knuckle down and decide to take in information from the bigger newspapers you realise that this country offers up too much choice for free. As an Aussie I find that the laws surrounding guns over here are extraordinary. I’m laughing with my eyes wide open as I peel through the many layers of gun rights . The detail that you have to wade through is incredible . Deregulation is big here and it has its benefits , but with guns it has become illogical. I’ve taken a very lazy approach and just jotted down a few things from the ‘LA times ‘editorial , but I’m sure you’ll still shake your head at this back home .Heres a few spin offs that gun ownership has created . A preemption State allows you to openly carry guns . So what? The race demonstration violence in Charlottesville that the media attacked Donny boy over , well most of the white supremacists and a lot of others in that brawl were heavily armed . It’s miraculous that it didn’t end up in a bloodbath .They want to ban guns at public rallies now as a result. Good luck with that .Theres your ‘stand your ground’ law that half the states in America have adopted . This law can be used as a self defence claim for justifiable homicide . In other words you can shoot and kill someone if you feel you are totally threatened .Florida under Jeb Bush was the 1st to bring this in . Jeb lost out to Donny for the Presidency.Gun lovers are actually running this country right now . You see ,’stand your ground law ‘ has created an 85% increase in justifiable homicide . Nice. Before that you had the’Castle doctrine’ which many states have . This is your right to defend your property with deadly force. In Nevada two people were shot dead in a vacant rental property whilst they were laying on the floor. The 73 year old land lord found them squatting I presume and thought it justifiable that he kill them with his shot gun . Fair enough old boy , the law says you are well within your rights . They are taught all about their constitution from an early age , even this year I sent back a video of Leroy in grade 1 singing a song about it .The 2nd amendment, the right to bare arms . It’s crazy . Occasionally I ‘l just look around while I’m in the shopping mall with hundreds of other people and just wonder who is actually armed and whether they’ve had a good day or not .