Dear Michael,
After the Trayvon Martin incident in Florida, the gun-grabbers and their pals in the press are working feverishly to whip up anti-gun hysteria nationwide.
Their goal is to destroy our right to self-defense . . .
. . . by gutting or repealing Stand Your Ground Laws wherever they’re found and pass a host of new anti-gun initiatives.
Stand Your Ground Laws -- which were originally titled “Make My Day” laws, after the popular Clint Eastwood movie -- simply state that law-abiding gun owners do not have a “duty to retreat” and cannot be prosecuted for defending themselves against criminal attack.
Do you really want to be second-guessing yourself if an armed thug is attacking you or a loved one?
In states without Stand your Ground, being targeted by an anti-gun prosecutor is almost as dangerous as being attacked by a criminal.
After all, there’s nothing prosecutors with big egos and bigger political ambitions love more than to say they’re “tough on gun crime.”
The problem is that they mis-identify the criminal as the victim, and the victim as the criminal, all in an attempt to vilify the law-abiding gun owner.
Even if the armed citizen is found innocent, it can be virtually meaningless.
In a recent tragic case in Iowa -- which has no Stand Your Ground Law -- a black former law enforcement officer and security guard, Jay Rodney Lewis, was thrown in jail for 112 days after defending himself against two white attackers.
One of the thugs was a drunken convicted felon with over 40 criminal charges going back 15 years.
Mr. Lewis was finally found innocent of all charges.
But during the time he was imprisoned, he lost his home, his car, his firearms collection and nearly everything else.
This is where a good “Stand Your Ground” law comes in.
In states with this legal protection, a homeowner can use lethal force against the aggressor -- known to any red-blooded American as a “criminal” -- without criminal or civil penalties.
In some states, Stand Your Ground laws only cover you in your home. In other states, it has been expanded to your place of business or even on a street.
In every Stand Your Ground or Make My Day law, though, it does not protect an aggressor.
In other words, if you started it, don’t plan on avoiding criminal charges or a civil suit using these laws, as they don’t apply.
Instead of waiting to determine the Florida case’s facts, the gun-haters smear our country’s “gun culture” and complain that we’re not more like Europe, where victims are disarmed and criminals can roam free.
Then they put pressure on lawmakers to repeal pro-gun protections. In Florida, it seems to be working.
Florida’s Republican Governor, Rick Scott, has announced he’d be willing to “to look at any laws that made citizens feel uncomfortable.”
And sadly, Governor Scott isn’t the only Republican nationwide who suddenly went spineless.
In fact, I’m afraid if Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law falls, it could create a domino effect all over the country.
Though all the facts are not known -- and may never be fully known -- the rush to conclusion over the Trayvon Martin shooting could prove extremely damaging to America’s self-defense laws.
I know you’ll stand with me to combat this destructive trend.
For Freedom,
Dudley Brown
Executive Vice President
This email received and posted by Michael T. Wayne- A Little Crazy
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