NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre: The Public Is Being Misinformed About the Stand Your Ground Law Because Politicians Don’t Want Americans Protecting Themselves
Amid calls for a thorough examination of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law following the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre spoke on America Live.
While LaPierre said he wasn’t familiar with all of the facts in the Trayvon Martin case, he does feel as though there is a shocking lack of knowledge about the Stand Your Ground Law. “All that law says in Florida is if you are in your home and your glass breaks in the middle of the night, there is a presumption that that person is there to cause you imminent fear of death or bodily harm.” He said the law changes if you are outside your home. “If you are on the street in Florida what the law says is if someone assaults you or if you are attacked, you can meet force with force. The law even says ‘not deadly’ in parentheses.”
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LaPierre charged that this law has been widely distorted and that the American people have been widely misinformed. He believes that much of it comes from “these politicians that want to impose a duty to retreat on the American public.” He said that these politicians are trying to put it on the average American to retreat should they be attacked, “rather than to do what is natural at the most terrifying moment of that person’s life … which is to protect your life and your family from those that would destroy it.”
He continued, “It’s mainly politicians and newspapers. You see it in the New York Times, the Washington Post, a lot of the big networks. They really don’t want the American public protecting themselves.”
He concluded, “This duty to retreat may sound fine at an Ivy League cocktail party; it doesn’t work very well in the real world of crime victims.”
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