Marissa Alexander Stood Her ground...and was Denied by Florida

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I'm pretty sure that's what DrPhil said. She was denigrating the law, not the actions Ms Alexander took.

I think DGTess does not want the law to be denigrated which is highly correlated with how DGTess feels about gun control and the failures of law enforcement.

There is room for both faults in the law and in people's actions. However, I simply do not care about Ms. Alexander's story because the common denominator in some of the more recent news stories is the Stand Your Ground law. That perhaps means that it has gone way beyond this notion of self-defense and is confusing some people as to what constitutes lawful and unlawful behavior in certain contexts. That implies a potential error in the law itself and not just in human application. Afterall, laws are formal social control mechanisms that serve to direct and/or respond to human behavior.