are there pardon me for the delay. i m in london. it s weird. i apologize for that to everybody at home as well. lars, are there a lot of examples where this law has led to violence and rampant use of guns that wasn t justified? matt is ignoring the fact that there is no factual back after the attorney general s false assertion that these laws cause an expansion of violence or cause the situations to happen. 30 of these states have this law and matt is shortchanging the american public. he says you have the right to self-defense. he s right about that. stand-your-ground laws say you don t have a duty to retreat and they offer you some protection. because many people who lawfully defend themselves find themselves the subject of civil suits later on for defending themselves against a criminal. matt should tell you about. did the oj study done about 15 years ago that estimates the number of defenses gun uses by americans at 2.5 to 3 million instances per year.
she s going to be at the u.n. doing exactly that. she has argued for, for example the introduction of american troops on the israeli border to protect the palestinian people from the israelis. that s how far out of the mainstream this woman is. all right. let s see what happens. monica, very insightful, thank you as always good to see you. you too, martha. thanks. well, the nation s top law man is attacking a self-defense statute that s on the books in some 30 states. coming up in our debate, attorney general eric holder s former communication s director will go head to head with lars larson over the stand your ground issue. very hot debate on that coming up. plus an update on the woman who came to be known as the neighbor from hell. is proving how she came to earn that title and a potentially deadly situation going on in outer space as an astronaut nearly drowns inside his suit.
what, george zimmerman needs to be punished. not so noble to stand up for this guy and say, look, he went through due process and acquitted and should be left alone. any honest attorney and i know you may not think there are, but there are, any honest attorney or law professor or somebody who knows the law and people who really followed the facts in this case day in and day out, not people who just turned on the news and saw a three minute clip or people who actually watched the evidence and then heard the law and put the evidence and the law together, it really and then the fact that the six women took 16 hours to go over the evidence. they were clearly thoughtful. it wasn t like a knee-jerk verdict. that verdict was the right verdict. it was. there was reasonable doubt all over the case. federal cases like these, the best one i think of new york city 20 years ago the crown
that all-republican government of north carolina is making good on lbj s prediction. legislatively trying undo the gains of the civil rights act, politically catering to those who saw themselves being on the losing side of that landmark law. yesterday we received further confirmation from the chair of the state senate rules committee who said republicans would be moving forward with a voter i.d. legislation next week. north carolina will join the republican government of texas and the republican government of mississippi in rushing through voter restriction laws on the heels of the supreme court s voting rights decision. according to a los angeles times report, north carolina freed from the voting rights acts preclearance provision, well in addition to working on a voter i.d., work to end early voting which 2 million people, mostly democrats, took advantage of during the last election. eliminate same-day registration. and end sunday voting. now, the context of this is that the republ
rights is alive, especially today. this is the 49th anniversary of the historic 1964 civil rights act, today. this civil rights act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and in our states, in our homes and in our hearts. to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice. in our beloved country. with president lyndon johnson s signature, the civil rights act became law. it ended the jim crowe era, outlawing segregation by race, religion, and gender. this landmark law also paved the way to the voting rights act of 1965. how did we get that act? we got it because people galvanized. they marched. they rallied. they lobbied congress. they put on the pressure. and that s how we must keep the voting rights act today.