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Oops! Stand your ground and shoot accross traffic.

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:09 am
by GuitarsandGuns
http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012 ... cksonville
A 23-year-old man who used Florida’s Stand Your Ground law as a defense was convicted Friday for firing a handgun at a Taco Bell coworker following a fist fight, according to State Attorney Angela Corey’s office.

Gordon Agenor and Marquis Brown worked at the fast food restaurant on Atlantic Boulevard in May 2011 when the two got into a scuffle, a news release says. After the fight, Agenor went to his truck and grabbed a gun from the glove compartment.

Brown ran across Atlantic when he saw the weapon, and Agenor fired at him three times “during broad daylight and rush hour traffic,” prosecutors said. Agenor said he was trying to “wound” Brown.

Re: Oops! Stand your ground and shoot accross traffic.

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:20 am
by Wurble
GuitarsandGuns wrote:http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012 ... cksonville
A 23-year-old man who used Florida’s Stand Your Ground law as a defense was convicted Friday for firing a handgun at a Taco Bell coworker following a fist fight, according to State Attorney Angela Corey’s office.

Gordon Agenor and Marquis Brown worked at the fast food restaurant on Atlantic Boulevard in May 2011 when the two got into a scuffle, a news release says. After the fight, Agenor went to his truck and grabbed a gun from the glove compartment.

Brown ran across Atlantic when he saw the weapon, and Agenor fired at him three times “during broad daylight and rush hour traffic,” prosecutors said. Agenor said he was trying to “wound” Brown.
Notice to those who oppose SYG: he was CONVICTED. Stand your ground very very obviously didn't apply.

Re: Oops! Stand your ground and shoot accross traffic.

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:52 am
by AmirMortal
Exactly wurble! We don't say that the 1A is a bad law, just because skinheads try to hide behind it. We don't try to end taxation, just because the rich abuse the system and find millions of $ in loopholes. Just because some idiot tries to claim self-defense, when it's clear that he wasn't, doesn't mean that self-defense laws are bad.