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Florida gun law authors say charge the shooter
Posted: 03.22.2012 at 6:27 AM
The co-authors of Florida's controversial self-defense gun law say it shouldn't protect shooters like George Zimmerman, who killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin last month.
"They got the goods on him. They need to prosecute whoever shot the kid," said former Republican Sen. Durell Peaden, a state lawmaker who sponsored the Stand Your Ground law in 2005, the Miami Herald reports. Of Zimmerman, he added, "He has no protection under my law."
But Zimmerman, a neighbor watch volunteer, forfeit the self-defense protections when he decided to pursue Martin before killing him, Peaden said.
"The guy lost his defense right then," said Peaden, according to the Herald. "When he said 'I'm following him,' he lost his defense."
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