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Originally Posted by valo403
Are people saying that? What I see is people arguing that laws regarding gun use should be significantly strengthened.
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Really? People are flat out arguing against the appropriatness of his self-defence argument. A lot of this is racially based. The ironic part is that if you strengthen gun laws or weaken self-defence defences, then you expose the lowest socio-economic classes to more convictions. It's people in lower socio-economic classes who are more likely to be involved in violent crime and more likely to carry guns.
Once you change a law, you have to apply it consistently. You cannot pick and choose when it applies.
Essentially, by changing these laws, you'd be sacrificing larger parts of the black and other disadvantaged communities to posthumously respect Trayvon Martin.