Originally published at: Man who shot black teen who rang doorbell finally charged with assault | Boing Boing
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Firearms ownership and racism: the classic American pairing.
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" A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the US after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old woman as the car she was in mistakenly drove up the man’s driveway."
-BBC
Can this be the beginning of the end of Stand Your Ground Laws, please. Governmentally encouraged paranoia shouldn’t become the future.
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Just to clarify, this shooting happened in Clay County, Missouri not Kansas. There is a Clay County, Kansas but it’s about 150 miles away from Kansas City where the shooting happened.
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Assault? Two shots, one after he was down, seems more like attempted second-degree murder. 
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Cause: meet effect.
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If the only goal was racist outcomes, they could have arrested the guy and let the DA come up with some bullshit reason to let him off the hook in a 30-second press conference.
This seems more akin to changing the slogan on patrol cars to read “There Is Nothing You Can Do To Stop Us”.
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To the best of my knowledge New York doesn’t have a stand your ground law, thankfully. Not that that made any difference to the unfortunate young woman who was killed.
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who said that?
racism is – unfortunately – able to walk and chew gum at the same time. couple it with capitalism and unaccountability, and well, hello modern america.
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It’s not a true Biff Tannen 1985 Hellscape unless white guys are threatened with guns on porches, until then, it’s just sparkling racism. 
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Wow … Just wow… he survived that… Good luck to them!
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Republicans: “How about if we just legalize killing all the pedo-commie ‘wokes’?”
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Apparently it is easy to spot 'em; just rely on gut-feeling.
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It’s Clay County, Missouri.
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Heck, don’t even have to do that - you can distinguish them by the protests they’re in, if they’re at drag events (or are otherwise obviously non-cis-het), or by their skin color…
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