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Obama Voted to Strengthen Illinois’s Stand Your Ground Law in 2004

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Monday, July 22, 2013 9:44 AM

JONGSSTRAW


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President Obama spent part of his surprise appearance at last Friday’s White House press briefing urging that the Stand Your Ground laws that exist in 31 states be reexamined. But only nine years ago, in the Illinois state senate, he co-sponsored a bill that strengthened his state’s 1961 Stand Your Ground law.

“It may be useful for us to examine some state and local laws to see if they are designed in such a way that they may encourage the kinds of altercations, confrontations, and tragedies as we saw in the Florida case, rather than diffuse potential altercations,” Obama said last Friday. “I know that there’s been commentary about the fact that Stand Your Ground laws in Florida were not used as a defense of the case. On the other hand, if we’re sending a message as a society in our communities that someone who is armed has a right to use those firearms even if there’s a way for them to exit from the situation, is that really going to be contributing to the kind of peace and security and order that we’d like to see?”

“And for those who resist that idea that we should think about these Stand Your Ground laws, I just have to ask these people to consider if Trayvon Martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk, and do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting Mr. Zimmerman who had followed him in a car because he felt threatened?” he asked.

He went on to say, “and if the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then it seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of laws.”

But the Illinois Review says Obama didn’t seem to have any of those concerns when in 2004 he co-sponsored S.B. 2386, which broadened the state’s Stand Your Ground law “by shielding the person who was attacked from being sued in civil court by perpetrators or their estates when a ’stand your ground’ defense is used in protecting his or her person, dwelling or other property.”

S.B. 2386 passed the Illinois state senate by a 56–0 vote on March 25, 2004. It sailed through the state house with only two “nay” votes. Both chambers were controlled by Democrats.


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So DEMOCRATS in both houses of the Illinois legislature voted overwhelmingly to pass a strengthened Stand Your Ground Law....and Obama co-sponsored the bill no less! And now he and his man-tool Eric Holder have the balls to rail against Stand Your Ground? Un-frickin'-believable! Then again, they didn't have to suck up to Al Sharpton in those days.

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Monday, July 22, 2013 10:17 AM

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... he co-sponsored a bill that strengthened his state’s 1961 Stand Your Ground law.


1961 ??

Well, there ya go ! That's proof right there that the law is RACIST !



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Monday, July 22, 2013 10:47 AM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
...and Obama co-sponsored the bill no less! And now he and his man-tool Eric Holder have the balls to rail against Stand Your Ground? Un-frickin'-believable! Then again, they didn't have to suck up to Al Sharpton in those days.


I have no comment, but Fred, my TSA monitor, just chimed in with 'it was his white half that voted for it.'

Fred can be a little racially insensitive, but at least he knows the best local resturants and gives good directions, which is almost worth the constant monitoring of my electronic communications.

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Monday, July 22, 2013 10:59 AM

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Originally posted by Hero:

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
...and Obama co-sponsored the bill no less! And now he and his man-tool Eric Holder have the balls to rail against Stand Your Ground? Un-frickin'-believable! Then again, they didn't have to suck up to Al Sharpton in those days.


I have no comment, but Fred, my TSA monitor, just chimed in with 'it was his white half that voted for it.'

Fred can be a little racially insensitive, but at least he knows the best local resturants and gives good directions, which is almost worth the constant monitoring of my electronic communications.



It's historically significant because it's one of the rare times that Obama actually voted with a 'yea' or 'nay' in the State Legislature. He typically voted 'present'. Apparently voting 'present' was enough for him to keep getting a Govt. paycheck.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 10:05 AM

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Obama was for stand-your-ground before he was against it.

SOP for a Dimocrat.

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