Activist Wants Stand Your Ground Ruled Unconstitutional
(B27) A handgun is displayed at Colosimo’s Gun Center in Philadelphia, Thursday, June 26, 2008. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
A local civil rights activist leading the charge to have Georgia’s version of a Stand Your Ground law ruled unconstitutional…is responding to another group, Georgia Carry, which wants the lawsuit thrown out.
WABE’s Rose Scott has more:
Rev. Markel Hutchins says there are many lessons to be learned from the case involving the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman.
Hutchins calls the law, http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2005_06/sum/sb396.htm ambiguous and unbalanced between
“There is a higher bar of proof for police officers and law enforcement officials who use deadly force in order to consider it justified than ordinary citizens under the stand your ground law” says Hutchins.
Rev. Hutchins adds laws like Stand Your Ground provoke racial profiling,“young black men like myself get the short end of the stick, that’s number one secondly we believe it creates a separate and unequal protection of the law because courts have held that race can be used to determine what is and what is not reasonable fear.”
Georgia’s version of the Stand Your Ground law was passed in 2006.
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