{"id":45673,"date":"2014-10-06T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/when-a-warning-shot-backfires.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:54:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:54:37","slug":"when-a-warning-shot-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/when-a-warning-shot-backfires.html","title":{"rendered":"When a warning shot backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. If he&#39;d just shot the kid and said he felt personally threatened, he&#39;d have been &quot;standing his ground.&quot; Instead, a warning shot lands him with 20 years in the slammer, mandatory sentence. <\/p>\n<p>Justice is served, but I think someone brought the wrong order.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>His mistake was shooting the wall instead of shooting the kid. Had he shot the kid it&#39;s likely he could&#39;ve used the Stand Your Ground law in his favor. That said, he did the right thing in firing the warning shot. It&#39;s just a shame the law is structured in a way that killing someone is the better bet for not going to jail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mandatory-minimum-sentencing-injustice-served\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Ihwfd928gm_rVZCDALmuRkPXOFusfUtuvEabNANfI456M1ajJvI4kbvIlKJrR3fM3xQFjayno7CLMiSx5ofb3gXchlvm-WA05LsCOm6yf13CPgpuT9kFpXXYlUbW4P3fXwHJ-QfYUOVX6OQCrUPnG0GkBS4BsMVCc6MHKg-BIkNKxnnHbOkwK8dtPGZc6_ZyWhieHopZWWs3RvGCTBQGcr1Nk6TjKS5EKOpgrc3wtOY=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mandatory-minimum-sentencing-injustice-served\/'>\u200bMandatory minimum sentencing: Injustice served?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nLee Wollard fired a warning shot to protect his daughter in an altercation with her boyfriend; a judge was forced to sentence him to 20 years in a Florida state prison\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Rxw8MdvKJMz'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. If he&#39;d just shot the kid and said he felt personally threatened, he&#39;d have been &quot;standing his ground.&quot; Instead, a warning shot lands him with 20 years in the slammer, mandatory sentence. Justice is served, but I think someone brought the wrong order. Originally shared by +Les Jenkins: His mistake was shooting the wall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/when-a-warning-shot-backfires.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When a warning shot backfires&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,715,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-crime-punishment","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133890,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/cops-panic-people-die.html","url_meta":{"origin":45673,"position":0},"title":"&quot;COPS PANIC &#8211; PEOPLE DIE&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jul-17 1:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That's one of the legends chalked on the ground where an Australian woman was shot by Minneapolis police under circumstances that demonstrate the grave problems in American policing today.I do have to wonder if this case would be getting anywhere near its attention if the victim -- a woman who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130037,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/yup-han-shot-first-5.html","url_meta":{"origin":45673,"position":1},"title":"Yup. 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