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Stand Your Ground

Lalo Alcaraz
© Lalo Alcaraz

Does it mean that the 99% end up on the ground?

I think this comic hit me mainly because of how terrorism laws are now being used to harass anyone the government doesn’t like, including journalists. Why wouldn’t we worry about laws that allow you to shoot someone if you feel threatened?

Or, ironically, if someone who has a life-threatening pre-existing condition (like cancer) feels threatened by GOP threats to repeal Obamacare (because losing their health insurance could kill them) does that mean that they can use “stand your ground” laws to justify shooting Republicans?

I hope not!

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This was written by Iron Knee. Posted on Friday, August 23, 2013, at 1:03 am. Filed under Humor. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. westomoon wrote:

    “… does that mean that they can use “stand your ground” laws to justify shooting Republicans?”

    My guess is, only if the sick people are white, male, and middle-aged, and the Republicans they shoot are black, and either very young or very old. It’s pretty clear that “stand your ground” does not apply universally.

    Friday, August 23, 2013 at 1:29 pm | Permalink
  2. BTN wrote:

    westomoon, to be fair, I think “justifiable” stand your ground targets have to be young and male.

    I don’t think anybody crosses the street or locks their car doors if they see an old black women with a walker coming towards them.

    Sunday, August 25, 2013 at 8:33 pm | Permalink