RLC Legislative Action Two bills that affect your right to self-defense will be heard in the Florida House tomorrow. On Thursday, Nov 7, the Criminal Justice Subcommittee will consider House Bill 4003 and House Bill 89. It is very important for your self-defense rights and legal protections that HB 4003 be voted down and HB 89 be approved. HB 4003 is titled “Use of Deadly Force in Defense of a Person.” This bill repeals relating to home protection and require that you be in fear of death or great bodily harm and have a duty to retreat before you could legally be able to defend your home. This bill needs to be voted down. HB 89 is titled “Threatened use of Force.” This bill needs to be approved. It is a legal protection to grant immunity to people who threaten to use force if the threat were made in a manner and under circumstances that would have been immune had force actually been used. This is in response to the basic injustice of minimum mandatory sentences being applied to people who only threatened to use force and actually would have been immune from prosecution had force actually been used. This would solve the current situation of “if you have to pull your gun out to defend yourself, you need to kill the person so you don’t go to jail.” Instead, pulling a gun out in self-defense, without having to kill someone, would be legal. As State Representative Charles Van Zant is a member of the Criminal Justice Subcommittee, I ask those concerned with preserving self-defense rights to IMMEDIATELY contact Rep. Van Zant. The subcommittee meeting is tomorrow so there is no time to waste. You can contact his Tallahassee office through the link below. Please ask the Representative to vote NO on HB 4003 and YES on HB 89 myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4444&SessionId=75 Travis Christensen, Republican Liberty Caucus POC for Clay County
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:24:35 +0000