Quote: 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?

 

Here is the statute. Stand your ground is addressed in section 3. As you can see, any instructions to the jury that include self-defense or justifiable homicide would have to include a definition of stand your ground.

 

I'm not arguing in support of DF. He was wrong to say the Zimmerman case was a stand your ground case, but it is also wrong to say that an explanation of stand your ground was not in the instructions to the jury.

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