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Sterling, a Religious Right lawyer (who despite his professed religiosity has done some legal work for a racy underwear shop that sells skin flicks on-line), opposes Leslie Rutledge in the Republican primary. She's a pistol-packing conservative who's as far right on issues such as abortion, Obamacare and the rest as Sterling is. And she has some GOP establishment credentials through work for Mike Huckabee and the Republican National Committee.

She's raised about $200,000 so far. He's raised about $175,000.

But now he's benefitting from a big ad buy by the American Future Fund. It is one of those 501C4 organization.s It doesn't expressly advocate election of David Sterling. Thus it is free from the sort of disclosure of contributors and expenditures required of regular campaign advertising. But make no mistake, This ad buy (and I've heard of phone calls, too) are an endorsement of Sterling for his support of a Stand Your Ground law (and mentions his anti-abortion position, too.

The fund is a multistate group that backs "conservative" and "free market" candidacies with such advertising support. It's based in Des Moines and issued this release on the Sterling ad:

Source Watch provides some more background on the outfit:

The American Future Fund received $1.1 million from the Center to Protect Patient Rights in 2011 after getting $1.3 million in 2009 and $11.7 million in 2010.[3]

The Fund spent $25 million in 2012 elections and $26 million in 2010, generally targeting liberal candidates. Seed money came from an ethanol magnate in Iowa. And, sure, there are Kochs at the bottom of this barrel. Again from Source Watch:

CPPR is run by Sean Noble, who Politico described as a Koch Operative [1], Nobel was hired by the Kochs to coordinate with other conservative superPACs to target Democratic representatives in 2010.

But advocacy of Stand Your Ground is reason enough to OPPOSE Sterling. Arkansas, as friendly toward guns as it is, has so far resisted, in part because of opposition from state prosecutors of all partisan colors. Florida tells us graphically what happens under Stand Your Ground laws. They are used to gun down people who can't give their side of the story after being plugged dead for giving offense to a gun toter. The number of homicides ruled "justifiable" have jumped sharply in statessuch as Florida where the laws were enacted. The laws haven't been accompanied by decreases in other crimes. And the law also is often seen as producingracially disparate treatment that is, more forbearance for whites who shoot blacks because they say they felt threatened. The issue rose toprominence in the Trayvon Martin case.

Self-defense is already ground for shooting someone. Arkansas doesn't need a Stand Your Ground Law. It doesn't need a legal extremistlike David Sterling as attorney general (he's made it clear he has no respect for federal court precedent or law). It doesn't need a shadowy right-wing group from out of state buying elections.

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JACKSONVILLE, FLA. -- A judge will rule next month on whether a local marine will stand trial for murder. Callie Adams is trying to use the stand your ground law to get immunity from prosecution.

She is accused of shooting her husband, Rodney Adams, outside a nightclub in 2011. Callie Adams claimed she only fired after her husband choked her and repeated punched her.

Prosecutors introduced the police interview and 911 calls from the night of the shooting in an attempt to show she did not fear for her life.

I was just trying to get him to stop hitting me, Adams told detectives in the video.

But Adams also testified he threatened to kill both of them during the altercation. A former JSO detective testified that Rodney Adams began the altercation.

Defense attorneys tried to use relatives and expert witnesses to establish that Rodney Adams had a history of abusing Callie Adams.

If she didn't have the prior history of being abused, then there would really be no basis for my testimony, said Dr. Harry Krop, a forensic psychologist based in Gainesville. But based on what's been reported and the reports of others, she has a pretty severe abuse history.

But late in the day, the prosecution called Rodney Adams mother to the stand. She initially was going to testify for the defense but has since changed her mind.

I would not lie for Rodney, but I would not lie for Callie either, said Loretta Adams.

Loretta Adams testified that the relationship between her son and daughter-in-law was combative and that she saw bruises and cuts on both.

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Stand your ground hearing in murder case concludes

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday signed into law a far-reaching bill expanding gun owners rights, marking a high-profile win for the gun-rights movement.

Called the Safe Carry Protection Act, the law eliminates a host of restrictions on Georgians ability to carry guns in public and allows people licensed to carry weapons outside the home to bring them into some bars and many state- and local-government buildings.

The law also largely eliminates criminal penalties for people found with guns at airport security checkpoints and removes gun-permitting restrictions for anyone who has pleaded no contest to a criminal charge.

The measure also extends the states stand your ground law to convicted felons. Such laws generally grant people more leeway to attack and even kill someone who is threatening them.

The laws passage and signing by Mr. Deal, a Republican, represent the latest victory for the gun-rights movement following the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Conn., that claimed the lives of 20 children and six others. Click here to read the full story.

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MANHATTAN A firm belief in God and in working for public dialogue on racial profiling and senseless gun violence helped Sybrina Fulton move forward following the death of her son, Trayvon Martin.

That was part of Fultons message to hundreds of students Tuesday evening at the K-State Student Union in Manhattan.

Fulton said in no uncertain terms her sons death was needless, and Americans of all races and ethnicities need to have difficult conversations about such topics as gun violence and preconceptions about others based on the color of their skin.

What happened to Trayvon? Trayvon went to the store, Fulton said, to get a drink and candy. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm sure a lot of you walk to the store to get a drink and candy.

As an African-American, I know that racial profiling still exists, she said. It's a very uncomfortable subject.

Fultons son was 17 when he was killed in a 2012 shooting in Florida that sparked an intense national debate over whether George Zimmerman, 28, had pursued Martin and killed him for racially motivated reasons, or whether Zimmerman had defended himself from an attack.

Zimmerman was acquitted at trial in 2013.

The national debate focused on whether the incident reflected racism and racial profiling, as well as on Floridas Stand Your Ground law.

This law does not benefit anyone, Fulton said of the law that her state passed in 2005. It gives people a right to shoot and kill and ask questions later.

Fulton urged students to educate themselves about Kansas own Stand Your Ground law. But she also said, in response to a students question, she didnt oppose gun ownership.

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Trayvon Martin's mother: Educate yourself about gun law

Ike Don Presents...Alicia Reese at Federal Court Building Speaking on Stand Your Ground Law
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