“Come ye lads scurry thee below, the ship she is a’ shaking and the wild wind is start’n a blow!!”
Last week Bo Morrison a 20 year old Wisconsin man became the latest victim of the Self Defense Immunity law. Morrison had attended a rather wild late night drinking party and ran and hid on a neighbor’s porch when the policed showed up to break up the party. The owner of the house claims he heard a noise on the porch and investigated in the dark with a 45 pistol in his hand. Minutes later Bo was dead with a hole blown through his chest and the bullet lodged in the wall between two appliances on the porch where Bo was hiding. The DA has determined that the home owner is immune from prosecution by Wisconsin’s new “Castle Doctrine” law.
This new ALEC/NRA “Castle Doctrine law” a.k.a. the “Stand your Ground Law” is already allowing cold blooded murderers to start their hunt for people to shoot. Note, in the interest of the many possible names that will eventually be given to this ALEC/NRA legislative model, I will simply call their model the “Self Defense Immunity Shield Law”.
This is the third murder of an unarmed young man since the murder of Trayvon Martin, wherein no arrests have been made with the police or DA citing their respective legislative version of the Self Defense Immunity Shield Law enacted in their state.
It should be strongly emphasized here that the shooters thus far have been lucky as their victims have been just run of the mill young men with no extensive family connections capable of retaliating with an onslaught of passion driven vengeance. However, with this new ALEC/NRA law on the books in 24 states (and counting) some trigger happy gun toting jock will stumble into the laws of probability and murder someone who has a family, group, or gang that are ready to exact their revenge against anyone who murders their cherished one and then is allowed to walk free. Just take the combined population totals of these 24 states and the numerical probability of revenge initiatives occurring reduces such a scenario to a fact, and it’s just question of when and how often.
We have a potential “Turf War” situation that has the capacity to make the legendary story of the feuding Hatfields and McCoys seem insignificant. It is still early in the blossoming of this ALEC/NRA pernicious legislative tool designed to destroy every shred of civil order in this country. However, I am certain the murder rate is poised to explode as these blood thirsty gun jocks observe just how easy it is to kill and escape without spending a minute in jail. The real question is what happens to law and order when people start shooting back, or revenge seekers decide to personally administer justice.
It took Congress very little time to pass an Amendment repealing prohibition and to get it ratified through all of the states. In my estimation the United States, through the passage of this ALEC/NRA law, is facing the most serious national emergency situation that ever existed in American history. IMO the first step must be to keep a state by state count of the number of people killed and the number of killers granted immunity under the ALEC/NRA Self Defense Immunity Shield legislative model in each state. These statistics will be necessary to convince Congress of the urgent need to address this situation. Some callous individuals have already joked about this law as making it open season on two legged animals, but I doubt these characters will find much humor in their “jokes” if someone that they love is murdered and the killer is walks free under this law.