Florida Democratic State Rep. Alan Williams has introduced a bill in the legislature that would do away with the Stand Your Ground defense, which law enforcement personnel and district attorneys have said makes their job harder in prosecuting shootings.
If Zimmerman initially provoked the deadly encounter, then he cannot invoke any "stand your ground" defense.
First, while everyone continues to focus on Zimmerman and whether he will invoke a Stand Your Ground law defense, efforts are under way in the Florida Legislature and other states to get rid of such laws, or change them.
That means expanding our homeland missile defense system Ground-based Midcourse Defense to an East Coast site, something that Congress has told the Pentagon to study.
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Interestingly, Mr. Davis has cited the importance of layered or "tiered" defense among his rationales for restarting the canceled E2I secondary interceptor for the single ground-based defense site he advocates despite the fact that the E2I system does not represent an independent layer.
Interestingly, Mr. Davis has cited the importance of layered or "tiered" defense among his rationales for restarting the canceled E2I secondary interceptor for the single ground-based defense site he advocates -- despite the fact that the E2I system does not represent an independent layer.
He threw a punch at me so I punched him down to the ground in self defense.
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For that reason, among others, Alaska's Fort Greely was selected as the site for the principal U.S. ground-based defense against such missiles.
Such systems include all phases of the Phased Adaptive Approach to missile defenses in Europe, the modernization of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, and the continued development of the two-stage Ground-Based Interceptor as a technological and strategic hedge.
Ground-based missile defense is especially costly and not nearly as effective as sea- and space-based systems would be.
If a go-ahead is given, it will be for the most expensive, least developed and least effective approach -- a ground-based missile defense.
Whether that remains the case will depend on how much funding is provided to continue producing and improving systems like Aegis and the Ground-based Midcourse Defense.
The contracts received in the past month range from providing air-to-ground missiles and missile defense systems to light tactical vehicles that can transport troops safely through combat zones.
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And the President is hopeful that in the next year or two we can start to demonstrate some tangible progress in finding common ground on this missile defense system.
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Yes, we are developing ground-based missile defense sites in California and Alaska, and we do have ship-based Aegis missile defense systems that theoretically could shoot down a North Korean missile.
In 2009, the Obama Administration killed plans to build a European version of the ground-based missile defense system already deployed in California and Alaska because of political controversy including threats against host nations from Russia.
Rodriguez's reference to standing his ground is similar to the claim made by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who is citing Florida's Stand Your Ground law in his defense in the fatal February shooting of an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin.
When the ball carrier is on the ground, someone on the defense must at least touch him so he's ruled down.
Their angle would be to promote a ground-based-only defense system involving perhaps as many as six sites and negotiations with Moscow on an amendment to the ABM Treaty to permit this step.
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Targets selected by the United States since the air operation began Sunday have included air defense facilities, ground-to-air missile sites, and command and control facilities of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and the al Qaeda terror network.
Just an example: our ground based, mid course defense system, or GMD, is the only defense system capable of defending us against a long range missile attack from a country, say Iran or North Korea.
The Center for Security Policy has learned that a senior member of the National Security Council staff recently explored with key congressional figures how they would react were the White House to announce that it was abandoning the Limited Defense System the modest, primarily ground-based SDI program authorized, indeed demanded, by the Missile Defense Act.
The Center for Security Policy has learned that a senior member of the National Security Council staff recently explored with key congressional figures how they would react were the White House to announce that it was abandoning the Limited Defense System -- the modest, primarily ground-based SDI program authorized, indeed demanded, by the Missile Defense Act.
As a result, South Korea contributes substantial numbers of aircraft, ground forces and materiel toward its own defense.
Gaffney, Jr. at the 1992 U.S. Army Scientific Conference on Chemical Defense Research, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 17 November 1992.
The Department of Defense is using a tactical ground reporting system so soldiers can report people and events they encounter in the field, in effect crowdsourcing information from disparate sources so other teams can understand what they may encounter.
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What they are trying to build in the missile defense agency and it's in the process of creating is layers of ballistic missile defense shield, which combines ground-base interceptors, which the Bush administration would like to have placed in Poland.
The plan is for U.S. military aircraft, accompanied by U.S. military security forces, to fly French troops and equipment into a neighboring country -- because the airport in Bamako is "very busy" -- after which they can move on the ground, a U.S. defense official said.
These are linked to a Civil Defense bunker, three stories under ground level.
"I've seen no evidence evolving that the 19 countries are going to say, 'Let's do detailed planning for a ground force, '" said Secretary of Defense William Cohen.
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