{"id":2116,"date":"2013-07-26T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/07\/26\/alabama-summers-and-snowballs\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:35","slug":"alabama-summers-and-snowballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Summers And Snowballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13028,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\\\/article\\\/20130724\\\/NEWS02\\\/307230025\\\/Democrats-vow-repeal-Alabama-s-Stand-Your-Ground-law&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\\\/article\\\/20130724\\\/NEWS02\\\/307230025\\\/Democrats-vow-repeal-Alabama-s-Stand-Your-Ground-law&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nNow that the Zimmerman trial is over, gun prohibitionists and their political allies have declared a jihad on Stand Your Ground laws. Many of the attempts to repeal the protection that these laws give to persons exercising their right to self-defense will come in the state legislatures.<\/p>\n<p>One of the latest attempts to repeal these laws is coming from the state of Alabama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/article\/20130724\/NEWS02\/307230025\/Democrats-vow-repeal-Alabama-s-Stand-Your-Ground-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">where certain Democrats vow to repeal that state&#8217;s Stand Your Ground law<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>A Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday there would be an effort to repeal Alabama\u2019s version of Florida\u2019s Stand Your Ground law in the next legislative session, but acknowledged it could be a difficult fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know it will not just be uphill, but up mountain,\u201d said Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma, at a news conference.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alabama has had a Stand Your Ground law since 2006 when it was sponsored by then-State Sen. Larry Means (D-Attala). Much like in Illinois in 2004 where then-State Senator Barack Obama supported that state&#8217;s Stand Your Ground law, this law was supported by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In the last session of the Alabama Legislature, they were presented with a bill to repeal the Stand Your Ground law. That attempt didn&#8217;t make it out of committee. Nonetheless, Sen. Sanders plans to attempt it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Sanders said he did not know what the scope of any Senate action would be or who would take the lead on it, but said he would sponsor a repeal effort if no one else did. Republicans control large majorities in both chambers, but Sanders said he would work on repeal for \u201chowever long\u201d it took.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;d rate his chances of getting his bill out of committee right up there with a snowball not melting when left out in the midday sun during a hot Alabama summer. In other words, it doesn&#8217;t have a snowball&#8217;s chance in hell of passing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Zimmerman trial is over, gun prohibitionists and their political allies have declared a jihad on Stand&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2942,1614,2461],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alabama","tag-repeal","tag-stand-your-ground-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9350,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/9350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}