Think Progress: Seven years ago, opponents of the “Stand Your Ground” legislation predicted it could lead to racially motivated killings. From Reuters, April 2005:
“For a House that talks about the culture of life it’s ironic that we would be devaluing life in this bill,” said Democratic state Rep. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach. “That’s exactly what we’re doing.” [...]
Critics say the measure could lead to racially motivated killings and promote deadly escalations of arguments.
“All this bill will do is sell more guns and possibly turn Florida into the OK Corral,” said Democratic state Rep. Irv Slosberg of Boca Raton.
Putting aside the murder of Travon Martin and the racial aspect in general, the rate of "justifiable homicide" in Florida has tripled since this law was passed. So yet again history has proven progressives right and conservatives wrong. If there is any issue, any public policy, any law in which history has proven the conservatives right and the progressives wrong, we can't think of what it could be. From slavery on, this has been the case.
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