Love you Susan. I admire your eloquence in verbally fucking the various assholes every week. Please, never stop, never change.

Tim Scott should be all in that racism is real, especially in the Republican party. If it wasn’t, he’d be Lindsay Graham, and have an actual seat at the table.

“[M]urder as defined comes with the term ‘premeditation’.”

If the shooter was a white man, he’d get off and be given a medal.

You don’t even need the victim to stand up for themselves. With these cases, you’ll get people arguing that crime in Chicago justifies murdering someone in New York. 

The best thing about stand your ground laws and other cases of claiming “self defense” as an excuse to commit murder is that you can be the instigator against an unarmed person. You can start shit (a la that piece of shit George Zimmerman) and then when the other person tries to stand up for themselves, you can just…

The problem is the distortion of Stand Your Ground laws, which are given a very wide berth in terms of what a “reasonable fear” is in terms of a threat or imminent danger. It shouldn’t be a “reasonable” fear when someone pulls into your driveway by accident. Or when a child knocks on your door. Or when you’re talking…

What often gets twisted in Stand Your Ground laws is that, by the letter of the law, you still can’t use deadly force unless there is a “reasonable” fear that your life is threatened or in imminent danger. It shouldn’t mean “so I started blastin” just because someone walks up to your door. That’s not a “reasonable”…

The law in Florida states that there has to be a “reasonable fear that one is being threatened or in imminent danger” but it seems like in practice a lot of times that gets read as “a person feels they’re being threatened” which is much more dangerous because people can FEEL things all the time but doesn’t mean there…

I believe you are also exempt from the ‘remove yourself from the dangerous situation’ clause if you follow up your random gunshots with a cool catchphrase.

You’re right on the first part. However, the “stand your ground” laws explicitly state that the requirement for a person to remove themselves (if possible) from a dangerous situation is gone. So people are free to kill someone on their front step even if they were fully able to just go back into their damn house.…

And in this case it's also a hate crime.

One thing about stand your ground laws is that you actually have to be at risk - a closed door means you’re not at risk.  The need for self-defense doesn’t exist if you can remove yourself safely from the situation. #lockherup

I don’t see how shooting someone with a gun can ever be a charge below murder. If you’re pulling the trigger, you’re obviously intending to kill them. Except in very clear cut cases of self defense, that’s murder! 

This “long-running feud” appears to consist of this woman repeatedly assaulting Owens’ children with no consequence.  Of course she thought she could murder Owens and get away with it.

That’s an interesting thought but it wasn’t my takeaway at all. I think Manuel’s more correct on this: she’s suggesting to Harper that she stays because she “copes” with his adultery by engaging in her own ... and then she “accidentally” shows her a pic of their kids. It’s kinda like “you’ve heard what I said but now l…

I agree, she’s far more devious than she puts on...except when she’s with Harper.  “I think you need a trainer” means Harper needs a side piece because Ethan is rich but kind of a putz.  Those kids are probably not Cameron’s!

I think that’s right, especially given that the whole reason for telling Harper about the trainer was to say that she cheats too!

Goddamn, a Punnett square reference! All the stars to you, sir!

The moment she shows Harper a photo of her kids on her phone (while claiming to be looking to show off “her trainer”) felt particularly calculated in its ditziness, almost as if she knew what she was doing, telling Harper in no uncertain terms why she stayed with Cameron