Quote:Enough with the condescension, I never use that on you. If you want to play the game of adding insult to argument, I can play that way.

 

There is no stand your ground statute. It is one section of a list of items that define justifiable homicide. When the judge instructed the jury to consider self-defense, she included an explanation of standing one's ground as it is used to define self defense. It was very clear in her instructions. That it was not used by the defense to have the case dismissed, which would make it a Stand Your Ground case. They didn't, so it was not. But it was in the instructions.

 My apologies. Condescension wasn't my intention. I am a reasonable guy, and so I will seek to find some common ground here.

 

As to your claim of the existence of a stand your ground statute, what was the Florida legislature debating today? It is real, and it does exist. I'll be honest here. I think we both have an understanding of what we're talking about. I think I'm taking the procedural side of the argument, and you're taking the fundamental side. That's okay. We're still friends.

 

I think we're arguing conceptual versus procedural here.

 

Legally, I'm right. Conceptually, you guys are probably right. Can we agree on that much?

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