TFred
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Posted in the News & Policital Alerts forum, this MSNBC article explores the link between record numbers of legal guns and the subsequent reduced crime rate. The antis close their eyes and deny it of course, but that's typical. See my comment on that in the thread over there.
Here in the Virginia forum, I wanted to pull out the real-world impact of the South Carolina Castle Doctrine. Here's a short excerpt from the beginning of the story:
Let's get rid of Saslaw and Marsh, and about a dozen of their colleagues, and get something like this done here in Virginia!
TFred
Posted in the News & Policital Alerts forum, this MSNBC article explores the link between record numbers of legal guns and the subsequent reduced crime rate. The antis close their eyes and deny it of course, but that's typical. See my comment on that in the thread over there.
Here in the Virginia forum, I wanted to pull out the real-world impact of the South Carolina Castle Doctrine. Here's a short excerpt from the beginning of the story:
Now that is my kind of a Castle Doctrine! I trust our resident experts, who tell us that Virginia's common law castle doctrine is sound... but you just can't beat "did not arrest", "did not interrogate", and "barred from filing a civil lawsuit" with a stick.Waving a chromed semiautomatic pistol, the robber pushed into the building in the bustling Five Points neighborhood of Columbia, S.C., just before 11 p.m. on April 11, 2009. “Gimme what you got!” he yelled, his gun hand trembling.
Attorney Jim Corley was one of four people in the room, the lounge area of a 12-step recovery group’s meeting hall. “He said, ‘Give me your wallet,’” Corley recalled. “So I reached around to my back pocket and gave him what was there.”
Unfortunately for the gunman, later identified as Kayson Helms, 18, of Edison, N.J., that was Corley’s tiny Kel-Tec .32, hidden in a wallet holster and loaded with a half-dozen hollow points. Corley fired once into the robber’s abdomen. The young man turned. Corley fired twice more, hitting him in the neck and again in the torso. Helms ran into the night and collapsed to die on a railroad embankment 100 feet away.
Reports filed by officers who arrived at the scene a short time later called it an “exceptionally clear” case of justifiable homicide. Following South Carolina’s “Castle Doctrine,” which allows the use of deadly force in self-defense, police did not arrest Corley. They did not interrogate him. Corley was offered the opportunity to make a voluntary statement, which he did.
Helms’ friends and relatives were left to mourn, barred by the same Castle Doctrine from filing a civil lawsuit.
Let's get rid of Saslaw and Marsh, and about a dozen of their colleagues, and get something like this done here in Virginia!
TFred