Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 21, 2012

Civilian disarmament advocates have implicated Florida?s ?Stand Your Ground? self-defense law in the shooting death of 17-year-old Miami resident Trayvon Martin by self-appointed crime watch ?captain? George Zimmerman on February 17. The Sanford, Florida Police have refused to charge Zimmerman.

Martin, a young black man, was entitled to be where he was; he posed no threat to Zimmerman, who had no legal right to detain him. Martin was unarmed; Zimmerman, who had a gun, outweighed the victim by more than 100 pounds. Several witnesses described Zimmerman as the aggressor; for some reason, the police ignored those accounts, going so far as to contradict one witness by saying that it was Zimmerman, rather than Martin, who had cried for help before the shooting took place.

According to ABC, ?The Sanford Police Department says it stands by its investigation, and that it was not race or incompetence that prevented it from arresting Zimmerman but the law.? This is patently untrue ? but that claim certainly fits the prejudices of both civilian disarmament groups and police unions, all of whom oppose ?stand your ground? laws recognizing the right to armed self-defense.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.