how you can say that stand your ground even applied in the trayvon martin case, because mr. zimmerman, if his account is to be believed and the two eyewitnesses that corroborate his account are correct, he was on his back, on the pavement having his head pounded in. he had no decision to make about whether to escape or not. he only had one possibility, can i get to my gun. megyn: well, but larry, with respect to the george zimmerman case, you tell me. does the stand your ground law apply if you create the circumstances under which you get attacked? well, okay, now that is a legitimate question. i think we can conclude from what we think we know is that he didn t create the circumstance. he saw a guy, his words now, acting strangely, maybe like casing the neighborhood, in the rain, not walking deliberately to try to get out of the rain, and stopped to request, what are you doing? you know, because it looked like he might be up to no good, and
were interest dutiesing a quote, stop shoot first laws amendment in reaction to this. so, we will see exactly where they go with this. joining me is larry pra t the executive director of the group, gun owners of america. welcome back to the program. thank you so much. megyn: you tell me. i m going to guess that you think this is inappropriate and they shouldn t be doing this since you re a progun guy. these laws have take an lot of heat in light of this shooting because people think you have a license to kill in any states that have this law. that was precisely the term that was used when the law was being debated initially in florida, and in other states, but the experience of the law is that in it s first four years on the books the murder rate in florida went down some 15%, even while justifiable homicides were increasing. so it s made florida safer. and i guess something else should be pointed out, it s really beyond my understanding