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Re:Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's d... by wudangmonk on Saturday May 25, 2024 @01:05AM (#40472777)
I believe the outrage is not about how good this particular 'martyr' is but because he was found guilty by the same system that decides when a person can reasonably use deadly force in a state that has laws specifically designed to 'stand your ground' and even then he was found guilty by a jury of his peers.

So with everything going for him he was still found guilty, so now someone can undo all of that just because they feel like it?. This spits in the face of the entire state and its judicial system.

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Re:Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's d... by _heimdall on Saturday May 25, 2024 @07:32AM (#40474256)
Wouldn't that argument extend to every government? Every state has to decide what level of force or violence is allowed and in what situations, and the power given to individuals will never match the power of the state.

It sounds more like an anarchist argument than an anti-Texas argument.

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