sparked a national debate on important issues facing our country, and it s also sparking action. we re seeing rallies and marches around the country with protesters calling for justice and change. the rallies are bringing us together and they re shining a national spotlight on florida s so-called stand your ground law. it s the controversial law that allows people to use deadly force if they reasonably believe their safety is threatened. critics call it the shoot first law. it was pushed and created by the the national rifle association, and the nra has been the driving force behind the law. in 2005, the nra first got stand your ground on the books in florida. since then, it s systematically pushed the law in more than 30 states. and now the world is seeing exactly why this law needs to change. joining me now is florida
ground and defending yourself. that s a shame if that s what our society has come to. that s how bad this law is. and that s why the prosecutors in the state of florida, all over the state represented by the florida prosecuting attorneys association want it repealed. ken padowitz, thank you for your time. thank you. and putting the spotlight on. putting a spotlight on, making national, and making people understand what is going on in egregious way is what marches and protests do. it is why we want to sanford in the first place. marching and protests do not solve problems. but it exposes problems, big problems. and no one will deal with things unless they re exposed. joining me now are two that engage in that is the reverend dr. w. food bank lynn richardson. he is chairman of the board of the national action network, my civil rights organization. and pastor jamal harrison bryant
prosecutions, and the law to the jury was different, which said that an individual had to use every means possible to avoid the confrontation before resorting to that force. so two main reasons why stand your ground applied in this case, and on all other case, many people would say this is a horrible law. it s not an accident, reverend, that the florida prosecution attorneys ago representing ought the state attorneys in florida have recommended a repeal of this law. now dave recommended a repeal of the law today. each the mayor of new york, michael bloomberg put out this statement saying one fact has long been crystal clear. shoot first laws like those in florida can inspire dangerous vigilanteism and protect those who act recklessly with guns. such laws drafted by gun lobby extremists in washington encourage deadly confrontation by enabling people to shoot first and argue justifiable homicide later.
community. voter acts gone. black men being killed and not being accountable. this is this is recurring. it s frustrating, but the church must incubate our disappointment and turn into it opportunity. reverend bryant, as we look at this 50 years later and we re getting ready, martin luther king iii and all of us come together to march and deal with the issues of today, voting rights and equal protection under the law, the challenge is for activism today is to put that spotlight on not only these particular cases, which clearly is front and center in the minds of the nation now, because people like us went to florida, but also to deal withstand your ground laws and other laws which laws were changed in the 60s when there was discipline in strategic action. one of the critical place, reverend sharpton, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary is what made magic johnson a great play was not all of his shots, but his ability to pass.
apply to a woman has a known abuser she is facing, someone menacing her inside her own home. she is in her castle. castle doctrine means you don t have a duty to retreat. angela corey s explanation was she should have ran out the front door. no duty to retreat should mean no duty to retreat, but apparently it didn t apply here. let me go back to you, kevin. in terms of the broad use of stand your ground, it at the broad discretion of a prosecutor and a judge, right? i want people to understand as egregious as this individual case, there is a systematic problem with this law and how it is structured in florida, and 29 other states. the problem is that you if i don t apply stand your ground to apply to all defendants, and you apply it one way to one person and another way to another person, you basically what is stand your ground? what is self-defense? so then you have marissa