for the miami herald. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. you have written about the role of stand your ground in the overall trayvon martin/george zimmerman case. you ve also written that regardless of the outrage and all the pressure, nobody should expect this law to change. are you at all surprised to hear the governor at least wants to talk to the protesters in his office about it tonight? no. i think they made it quite clear they re going to stay there for quite some time, so if they stay in his office and they increase in numbers, eventually he s going to have to address them. in 2006, a similar group, the kind of the forerunners of this group held a sit-in when george bush was a governor, involving the death of a young man named martin lee anderson. they stayed and stayed and jeb bush finally met with some of the folks and they went away. rick scott has gotten the message. in thinking about the power of the nra, when this initially passed, it was not at all a
for the miami herald. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. you have written about the role of stand your ground in the overall trayvon martin/george zimmerman case. you ve also written that regardless of the outrage and all the pressure, nobody should expect this law to change. are you at all surprised to hear the governor tleat least wants talk to the protesters in his office about it tonight? no. i think they made it quite clear they re going to stay there for quite some time, so if they stay in his office and they increase in numbers, eventually he s going to have to address them. in 2006, a similar group, the kind of the forerunners of this group held a sit-in when george bush was a governor, involving the death of a young man named martin lee anderson. they stayed and stayed and jeb bush finally met with some of the folks and they went away. rick scott has gotten the message. in thinking about the power of the nra, when this initially passed, it was not at all a
0 the nra wanted to roll this law out everywhere and they prioritized it. so florida went first. but then in short order, 21 other states had passed some version of the stand your ground law. they started with florida in 2005 and look how far they got. the nra had incredible momentum on this, but as they moved along, along, winning in the states, those states were starting to feel the effect of those laws. of what living under laws like that means for the states. in florida, where they tried it first so they had the longest experience with it, the tampa bay times started studying stand your ground cases and found shocking outcomes. one man killed two people, unarmed, and got acquitted. under stand your ground, you could be acquitted if you shot somebody who is lying on the ground and be acquitted for shooting somebody in the back of the head. the tampa bay newspaper said it was impossible to know how many stand your ground cases florida had but appears to be several hundred and of th
0 case for six weeks even though there was no doubt as to who had pulled the trigger. the shooter said he had acted in self-defense. and, of course, self-defense in florida now is stand your ground. a lot of the country was outraged about this case. outraged about the handling of this case in florida. outraged that the shooter was not being arrested. he s not being arrested, how can it be that he s not being arrested? we all learned quickly because florida had this law. this stand your ground law. the lady in the blue jacket. right. ah. oh. and it turns out it s not just florida. florida was first, but now basically everybody has this law. why does everybody all of a sudden have this law? this seems new. where did this law come from in all these states that not many people noticed before this marquee case in florida suddenly shocked everybody with its implications in this case? the law came from something called alec, stand your ground, defend your castle laws may have been an nra prio
0 no. what we owe to everyone, and what we own a consumer market where people can walk away every year. kevin nazemi from oscar and msnbc policy analyst ezra klein. thank you both. that is all in. the rachel maddow show starts right now. thanks, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. have you seen this man? the guy in the middle holding the turtle. rick scott. republican governor of florida. rick scott reportedly has not shown up at the florida state capitol building for nine days. he reportedly has not been to his own office, the governor s office in tallahassee for at least three days. rick scott does not seem to be missing because of some kind of foul play or hike in the appalachian trial or anything like that. rather rick scott has seemed to be in hiding from this. a whole bunch of mostly young citizens in his state camped out at his office protesting. may have been an nra priority. the way the nra pushed them was through the american legislative exchang