Florida Stand Your Ground Shooting

[CapnAwesome]

I'm pretty sure I could beat the shit out of Liam Neeson. He's like, 1000 years old.

I chose him partly because of his badass onscreen persona (I have no idea of his offscreen chops) and partly because he’s not only white, but from the whitest nation on the face of the Earth, which would totally eliminate the point of the “black brute” stereotype so often used to justify the racial profiling that so plagues the criminal justice system.

The Rock is more famously badass, but since he’s half black and half Samoan, that would not have worked for this purpose.

I could not beat up the rock.

Regarding the law, I think self defense laws are sufficient enough. Just being afraid for your life is a subjective thing. Even if someone was beating the shit out of me, I wouldn't necessarily fear for my life. People just 20 years could get in fights and not assume it's going to be a lethal encounter, also this is how most other cultures view it.

If someone pulls out a gun or knife and waves it at you, that's one thing. It's a whole nother ball of wax when a white guy starts shit with a black guy and then shoots him when he is losing the fight he started.