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bijouxbroussard · F
It allows certain people to kill with impunity, and always has. Whether or not they are viewed as defending themselves depends on how dangerous the victim is perceived. 😳

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@bijouxbroussard right. Let me take my big brown self to a Proud Boys protest carrying an assault rifle and shoot 3 vandals dead.
I wouldn't even make it to trial; dead in police custody.
I wouldn't even make it to trial; dead in police custody.
LegendofPeza · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard And , of course , race plays a big part in this.
"In an analysis of homicides done after Trayvon Martin’s death, the Urban Institute found that cases with a white perpetrator and a Black victim were 281 percent more likely to be ruled justified than cases with a white perpetrator and white victim."
"In an analysis of homicides done after Trayvon Martin’s death, the Urban Institute found that cases with a white perpetrator and a Black victim were 281 percent more likely to be ruled justified than cases with a white perpetrator and white victim."
bijouxbroussard · F
@SW-User Exactly my thoughts.
@LegendofPeza Yes, that’s right. This country refused to make lynching illegal until 2020.
@LegendofPeza Yes, that’s right. This country refused to make lynching illegal until 2020.
@bijouxbroussard The Jewish Law of the Din Rodef.
bijouxbroussard · F
@NativePortlander1970 Except that in prominent cases here the pursuer was vindicated and the pursued, who’d committed no crime, received no justice. 🙁
@bijouxbroussard Trayvon Martin comes to my mind in this.
bijouxbroussard · F
@NativePortlander1970 Exactly. A law that allows someone to kill based upon arbitrary perceptions is problematic where biases already exist.
@bijouxbroussard Indeed. Americans love to pride the US as the greatest nation on earth, yet it is also the most violent and deadly first world nation on earth, because of the proliferation of guns, and its violent gun history.