Killing Stalls Stand Your Ground Laws as NRA Lobbies in Alaska
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On the one-month anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s killing this week, the National Rifle Association was in Alaska lobbying for a law like the one at the center of the Florida shooting.
The gun rights group urged supporters to contact senators on the “stand your ground” bill, calling it “vital self-defense legislation.” A lobbyist worked the halls in gun-friendly Juneau, telling at least one senator that the highly publicized slaying of the unarmed black teen in Sanford, Florida, is “irrelevant” to the debate in Alaska, according to Senator Hollis French, an Anchorage Democrat.