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After Zimmerman: In Defense of “Stand Your Ground” Laws

By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, July 18 2013

Since its earliest days, the Obama administration has been guided by the mantra, “never let a crisis go to waste.” At the time, the phrase helped explain why President Barack Obama and his advisors used the economic crisis he inherited to ram through a costly and completely unrelated overhaul of the nation’s health care system. Now, Attorney General Eric Holder is using a similar sleight-of-hand to turn George Zimmerman’s acquittal into an activist agenda to repeal a law that had no bearing on the outcome of Zimmerman’s trial. The law being targeted by…

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