Patric Jonsson of the
Christian Science Monitor has been writing articles about the Zimmerman verdict and Stand Your Ground laws,
quoting me:
"What's going on [with protests against stand your
ground] is just politics," says Clayton Cramer, a gun rights historian
in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. "The real tragedy in America is not racism,
but something that's gone terribly wrong within the black community."
and
this article:
More broadly, studies have been decidedly mixed
as to whether stand your ground laws exacerbate violence or are of
ultimate benefit to public safety.
Such disparate findings
are part of the problem when seeking judicial relief. Also, courts tend
to limit trend data when prejudice can’t be proved by the facts in the
particular case on the docket.
The bar for federal
intervention in state affairs is whether a particular law
“disproportionately impacts minority groups,” says Clayton Cramer, a
gun-rights historian in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. Citing The Daily Caller
report, he adds, “The problem is that this law has disproportionately
benefited a minority group, which demolishes” the legal standing.
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