• xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      We also have a policy that if you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle, and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.

      it’s a completely pointless law. You were already allowed to defend yourself if attacked by a mob (but not if you drive into the mob and then they start attacking you)
      so yeah, if you go to a planned parenthood protest, and they all surround your car, threatening you and attacking your car, you can drive away.

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    A state governor just authorized vehicle ramming attacks against probably his own citizens. Disgusting and disgraceful.

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      He’s authorizing terrorism against free speech as a loophole for getting around the first amendment

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      I think you are forgetting the right of killing and injuring.

      Land of freedom!

      /s (if not obvious)

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    In a stand your ground state?

    Haha, ok. Good luck, Attorney General James Uthmeier.

    If an armed protestor shoots a driver who is driving at them with intent to cause bodily harm, they… Both have the right to possibly kill one another?

    Driver has the green light. Gunman has the green light.

    Cool, cool. Makes sense.

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    That means I have the right to put 9 rounds into the drivers seat before that happens.

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    I’m firing my gun at the driver in defense if they’re trying to hit me with their car

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    “And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.”

    He continued, “You get 20 points for adult males, 30 points for adult females, and 50 points for children. Points can be redeemed for ‘DesantisBucks’ once you reach 500 points or more.”

    EDIT: a word

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    Weird. The more I look at DeSantis the more he looks like a protestor. Just me?

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    De Santis may be a sack of shit but that doesn’t justify the misleading headline in this case. He was giving a specific example of escaping “when a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle, and threatens you.” DeSantis says so many outrageous things for real and pushes outrageous policies for real, there’s no need to misquote him.

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    This is just one more reason why there needs to be an organization participating in protest spaces specifically to provide armed security, same as Black Panthers provided security for civil rights protests.

    People won’t be so willing to drive into a crowd of protesters if the bloc has an armed perimeter.