George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jun 18, 2025
Take the masks off. Show your badges. This is America.
Show threadOwen H.

@georgetakei

This is a cheap shot from someone in another country ...

Im not seriously proposing this - but don't several states have 'stand your ground' laws?

Not worth the damage to the individuals involved, but it would simultaneously have the benefit of slowing down this 'crackdown', and be the biggest step towards widespread gun control since the black panthers.

Jun 18, 2025 at 10:15pmWeb
Show threadNazaniJun 18, 2025
@owenhollands @georgetakei Yes, but they generally require you to be in your yard or home when attacked.
Show threadOregon's File MasterJun 19, 2025
@Nazani @owenhollands @georgetakei didn't one guy follow a black man and shoot him under stand your ground and it got dismissed?
I would imagine a neighbor or friend being at an immigrant's place by coincidence and seeing someone try to break in at their friends place would be covered by stand your ground or castle doctrine, right?
Show threadNazaniJun 19, 2025
@ofm @owenhollands @georgetakei
Way out of my expertise.
https://www.justia.com/criminal/defenses/stand-your-ground-laws-50-state-survey/
Stand Your Ground Laws: 50-State Survey

Many states allow a person to stand their ground and use deadly force in self-defense, while some states still impose a duty to retreat in most locations.

Justia