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FarmerRick:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76045.html

Dems target 'Stand Your Ground' states

House liberals want the government to cut funding for state and local police programs in places that have “Stand Your Ground” laws like the Florida statute at the center of the Trayvon Martin shooting case.
Reps. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, will offer an amendment to a Justice Department spending bill as early as Tuesday evening that would slash 20 percent of Byrne Grant funding for states with such laws on the books.

The authors know the amendment has no chance of winning adoption in the Republican-dominated House. But they hope to make a point about Martin’s shooting: that states and municipalities become less safe when citizens are given the right to shoot people who they believe represent a threat of death or great bodily harm.


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Lorimor:
Dem's you say? Huh.  Those I know, who have to the guts to ID themselves as "Progressives" anyway, continually tell me that the Dems are not anti-gun.   They continually chastise the NRA for not supporting more DNC candidates. 

These Progressives also do a lot of drugs.

Husker_Fan:
I guess "dems" is technically correct since there are a whole two of them pushing it so far.

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