Wyoming’s “stand your ground” law is supposed to offer legal protections to gun owners who draw in self-defense, yet Ms. Kelver was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and possession of a deadly weapon with unlawful intent, charges that carry up to 15 years in prison.
The case has touched off an impassioned debate in one of the country’s most gun-friendly, staunchly Republican states about whether the Second Amendment applies when the person holding the gun is transgender.
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Wyoming specifically rejects the duty to retreat
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Dude, fuck of with this moralizing nonsense. How she should have acted is irrelevant. The issue is she’s being tried for something that is obviously legal for someone with a different gender identity.
unmagical is a fed. i can feel it, look at that wall of corpo-sanitized lecturing text down (up) there.
This is how they justified Trayvon Martin’s murder, and that POS stalked him, disobeying the police. Now he’s rich from signed packets of candy.
walking up to them is way more than “not retreating”. i wouldn’t be so sure the same situation would be obviously legal for a cis person, especially if the 'phobes had a rich daddy or were related to the mayor.
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ofc she’s targeted for being trans you debatelord pissbaby
@dessalines@lemmy.ml Dipshit transphobe begging to be banned.
User has already been banned once in the past for transphobia.
This is a point on which general good sense and Wyoming law disagree
And yet, Wyoming specifically rejects the duty to retreat
Fuck off, transphobe.
You’re deluding yourself if you think a cis man would get any charges if the situation was reversed.
This is what happens when a society created a unsafe environment loaded with guns. Not a single thing done here was different then if the people had been cis. But because this women wasn’t going to take shit then she got the law coming at her.
She could in fact gone back inside when the harassment happened but two issues.
It might signal to these yahoos that she is a easy target and if the get it in their head they could stay around to attack later.
Its really fucking shit to be the one being harrased and told to suck it up and leave. Its a understandble reaction at first but falls apart a little under more heavy scrutiny.
These men are the ones who started it. And now them and all the macho fucks are upset because the status quo was not enforced. So now they need to try and save face anyway they can. This kind of thing is inevitable when you live in a fascist empire like this. Some people are not going to sit around waiting for the axe to fall. Some people are going to fight back instead of cowering away. How smart that is at which opportunity is a moot point. When the back breaks and the last straw is taken, shit is going to happen.
I want to add that this sort of stuff is the result of lots of small things happening over time. “Death by a thousand cuts”.
“Mutual respect” and “keeping a level head” may not be tangible physical things, but they are finite resources. Piss people off enough, and they explode.
This sort of thing caused a minor blow up at a community center thing I attend to. The organization switched to forcing everyone to use “”““Freedom””""Transit for cost reduction reasons and the utter garbage that is US public transport pissed everyone off enough that one of the staff members almost got a new asshole.
Frankly I probably would’ve done the same thing if I was her, with the distance different that I’d do it sooner as I have a short fuse!
People like you are why I am still closeted by the way.
Fuck you fucking liberal shitstains.
if her charges aren’t a sign that the us government means to murder all transgender people then there’s never been a genocide.
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Going to a bar with a gun, with the intent to drink, is an average Tuesday in Wyoming.
I don’t see why a trans woman living in some shitty retangle state like motherfucking Wyoming wouldn’t carry a gun in absolutely any situation where it’s allowed, i definitely would. Stop lecturing us on safety protocol, you clearly don’t understand that trans people must assess some risks differently than cis people.
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And yet, the Pigs and the chuds do it constantly
I thought chuds loved FREEDOM
turn that frown upside down inside your ass.