Okay, three guys break into a house. These same guys rampage through the house demanding pot (the father in this house had a prescription for both marijuana and some other prescription medications to treat depression). The family refuses so they start to beat the man’s stepson with a baseball bat (he suffered brain damage as a result of the attack) until the man gets his gun and shoots two of them, killing them dead in their tracks. The surviving member of the gang was charged with murder under a little known California law called The Provocative Act doctrine which does not require the prosecution to prove the intent to kill, only that “they have to show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner.”
So, if you go rampaging through a house and start beating someone’s kid with a baseball bat, it is fairly reasonable that you should expect the homeowner to try to defend his family with deadly force (at least it is in my house), right? And if the previous statement is correct, then it should be reasonable to assume that you should be tried for murder under The Provocative Act doctrine, right? Well, not according to the NAACP. According to the NAACP the homeowner should be tried for murder and this is just another case of racism. You know, the white man (the homeowner defending his family) keeping the black man (in this case a trio of marauding thugs wielding a deadly weapon, screaming for drugs, and beating your son almost to death) down.
You know, racism does exist. The problem is that jackasses such as the ones trying to paint this clear cut case of self defense as racism are the primary propagators of racism. They make their living off of the controversy spawned by spinning cases of violent crime into tales of injurious injustice. If there is no injustice, these carpet baggers don’t make any money. For the NAACP, racism is just good business… at least it is in this case.
And before any bigots start posting their own racist comments, please bear in mind that I am not in any way, shape, or form trying to malign anyone with a darker skin tone than I have (which is pretty much everyone on the planet including a few albinos). I’m attacking the actions of a misguided and partially anachronistic organization, not the demographic it seeks to aid and represent (the vast majority of which are decent, law abiding citizens).
