(PatriotHQ) This is the era of the erosion of freedom and many are using the excuse of false logic to steal your freedom. The liberals demand the removal of firearms from society in the name of freedom, but nothing could be more damaging to freedom than removing of a defined and clear statement made in the second amendment.
One brave member of Congress is confronting the liberal madness of gun grabbing and not backing down. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) are proposing a “stand your ground” bill which would allow citizens to use deadly force to defend themselves.
Get this. Gaetz and Mullin launched the Stand Your Ground Act of 2023 Thursday. This law would legalize “stand your ground” nationwide for self-defense.
“Every American has the right to self-defense.” Gaetz said Thursday you should be able to shoot back to defend your life if someone tries to kill you.
“We need to get rid of the legal duty to retreat everywhere,” stated the Florida Republican.
Oklahoma and Florida know deadly force can save a life. Mullin, who introduced a Senate version of the bill, said Americans should be able to defend themselves without retreating. “I’m proud to introduce the Stand Your Ground Act in the Senate to give law-abiding Americans these common-sense self-defense rights.”
Gaetz: “Duty to retreat” helps attackers. After Trayvon Martin’s 2012 shooting, the “stand your ground” self-defense law received public attention.
After arguing in Sanford, Florida, George Zimmerman, 28, shot and killed 17-year-old Martin. Zimmerman was charged with murder, but he said Martin struck him and he had to shoot to save himself. Zimmerman was acquitted after trial but not after costing him tens of thousands of dollars to protect himself and in this case all Americans as well!
The shooting criticized Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” laws. Prosecutors and gun control advocates argued the rule makes it tougher to determine who began a fatal brawl and whether a shooting was justified but come short on realizing if all parties were armed there probably not be a ‘fatal brawl’ and the gun carrying public could live in peace.
In an interview with Fox News, Gaetz said Martin’s death strengthened his support for the “stand your ground” rule. Gaetz was on the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Florida House of Representatives during national efforts to repeal the state’s “stand your ground” laws.
Gaetz said Fox News, “I became even more sure the legal duty to retreat from common law puts the law on the side of the attacker and not the victim.” “And now I’m in Congress, I don’t think the law should make it different for people in Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and California about how they have to leave the country.”
The Brady Campaign calls “stand your ground” laws “shoot first” laws. “All you have to say is you had a good reason to think you were in danger,” Brady Campaign senior attorney Daniel Vice told MSNBC after Martin’s death. “Only the person you killed can dispute .”The “Shoot First” rule and the ability to carry loaded guns in public protect murderers, making these prosecutions difficult to bring.
After Gaetz and Mullin unveiled their bill on Thursday, the left-wing group Occupy Democrats tweeted the bill “would empower anyone to use deadly force as long as they later say they were “reasonably” frightened of “imminent death or grave bodily harm.”
The enlighten progressive liberal masters are claiming: “If this crazy law passes, MAGA nutjobs all over America will finally be able to act out their violent fantasies of vigilante justice without fear of getting caught,”
Gaetz’s bill might pass the Republican-controlled House but not the Democratic-controlled Senate. President Joe Biden must sign the bill even if it passes both chambers of Congress and the likelihood of this is next to zero. However, by doing nothing this opens the door to false boldness against the second amendment.
After major shootings like the one at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, in March, Biden and other Democrats have called for tougher gun regulation but fail to mention it was people with gun which stopped the shooter and hold the school had an armed guard lives would have been saved.
In conclusion. Push back we will, succeed we must. Even though tens of millions of gun owners may have to wait until a regime changes, We the People will Stand Our Ground!
