have the right to defend yourself there. it s called the castle doctrine and allows you to use deadly force to protect your person and property, but pennsylvania now may soon expand that right well beyond your home, your car, to your business, and indeed anywhere out in public as long as you have a right, a legal right to be there. in other words, if you re out on a public street in pennsylvania, and you perceive a threat, if this law passes, you would be permitted to use force, even deadly force against that threat. and here is the key provision. removing what is called the duty to retreat. and i ll quote it. no person should be required to surrender his or her personal safety to a criminal, nor should a person be required to needlessly retreat in the face of intrusion or attack outside the person s home or vehicle. in other words, you can stand your ground out on a public street, and that s not all. you would be protected from
part of solutions on this megyn: i want to get jesse in. she seems to be talking about what some call comprehensive immigration reform which is dead, the administration has made that clear. many others have said, look, with or without the comprehensive reform, we need to secure the border, and that s what they re asking the feds to do, and the frustration you heard from governor brewer moments ago on that. no question about the border s broken. the bottom line is the lines have been in place, the federal government had these laws for many years. what we have going on is the fact that the federal government fails to enforce the laws. and second, you know, she made the comment that arizona s law wouldn t have corrected the problem. our law, s.b.1070, will correct the problem. that s why the government came out and fought us, because they re fearful that since they don t do our job, our law passes, people will look at us, and they re going to see that we make gains and other states wi
you don t necessarily need a lawsuit. when employers begin to see that potentially a bullied employee can bring a lawsuit, yet in new york state if this law passes, punitive damages could be tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars, i think it will lead employers to actually check out their own backyard, see what s going on, see that hr gets on the case. because they don t want this to go to litigation. ideally this will lead to more self-policing that s going on right now. what about vagueness? what constitutes bullying as opposed to somebody getting angry with poor work performance, for example? that s a fair point but that s true in any kind of employment law when you talk about harassment. what exactly is sexual harassment, what is racial harassment. there are always line-drawing problems, definitional problems but it would fit neatly into those categories. juries are able to see when a workplace has gone past the line. do you think this is going to gum up the courts
just kidding. not yet. let me explain here. san francisco is debating now, debating a law that would ban the sale the pets. if this law passes, you wouldn t be able to buy any animal except for maybe nemo. supporters say the idea is to stop people from making those rush decisions, about kittens, hamsters, puppies, they call them impulse buys, grab something and then you don t put your heart and soul into it and maybe just let the animal run off. so many of those pets end up in shelters as well, end up on the streets, too. pet shop owners say this would put them out of business. but they say it would encourage more adoptions from shelters. adoptions are great. that is something that is important, where they say there are those puppy mills and huge problems and these types of things. trying to attack the problem. i know you re like, i m going to keep my mouth shut. no, i have two pets that came from shelters.
are demanding that she sign it. now it s interesting because there is such a dichotomy. you have people that a lot of them here that are saying that their lives will be affected even more than they are affected today by what they claim is racial profiling in arizona but if you talk to the ranchers for example that are on the border with mexico they say that this is the most porous part of the border. there is no control. people stream in daily with no controls, no way to know who they are. it s two sides of a very contested issue. i ve got to tell you that the fact of the matter is that for hundreds of thousands of hispanics in arizona and for millions of hispanics throughout the country what s happening here today, whether the governor signs it today or not or whether she does nothing and tomorrow the law automatically becomes law of the state, this is something that a lot of hispanics are looking at and saying what is going to happen to me if this law passes. well, jose, let s just