return once this bill is passed. now, kendall, four of florida s biggest newspapers have come out against stand your ground. saying the florida law must be revise or repealed. this is unprecedented in the state of florida. what is your reaction to this growing outcry against this bill? i remember two years ago when many of us started raising objections, we were considered raising something from the margins. now you see the mainstream is saying no, this is not a good bill. well, and you have to hope. we now have three high profile cases in florida that have dramatized the problems with this law. of course, the george zimmerman case, the marcel alexander and michael dunn. you have to hope that this growing momentum is going to mean something and the legislature is going to feel they need to do more than just
not a monster. i mean, that s important to me that you know that. maybe dunn was confident that it would work out. because of how broadly the self-defense law protects the use of deadly force. at his trial, the jury instructions read, quote, the danger to michael dunn need not have been actual, as long as he believed that the danger was real, and he had no duty to retreat. so the danger didn t have to be real. he only had to believe it was real, and he had no obligation to retreat from this imaginary danger? what kind of law is that? there are now 25 states with stand your ground laws on the books. and now in florida, the state where it all began, they re actually trying to expand it. a house committee just approved a bill that would expand the law to include the threat of force, not just the use of force itself. supporters say the bill could help someone like marissa alexander, who was imprisoned after firing a warning shot in self-defense. but critics say it opens the doo