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when the law was first being debated back in two thousand and five florida state representative dan gelber said about it for a house that talks about the culture of life it's ironic that we would be devaluing life in this bill but that's exactly what we're doing and a two thousand and five reuters article in the new law read critics say the measure could lead to racially motivated killings and promote deadly escalations of arguments trayvon martin the victim was an african-american and george zimmerman the killer was not and it's alleged the audio is difficult to hear is the moment a racial epithet and his nine eleven call just before killing martin department of justice and the f.b.i. are looking into whether this may have been a racially motivated a crime but george zimmerman is still free because he's protected by this stand your ground law so where did this law come from that's where alec comes in alec brings together mostly republican state lawmakers and corporate lobbyists he sighed an equal vote on model legislation that is approved semiannual alec conferences and then sent off to s

. >> and we get a different perspective from dan gelber who voted against the stand your ground law when in the florida state senate and is now calling for its repeal. earlier today i asked if the trayvon martin death is the kind of case he feared would happen. >> prior to 2005, we had a perfectly good self-defense law and there were no victims or people who claimed they had been treated in you know, unfairly by that law. so in 2005 governor bush signed the law a bill that essentially took out of the law any requirement that a person in broad daylight, outside of their home, as this case suggests harks to de-escalate a situation, or walk away if he can. >> so what precipitated this law, then? if you said everything seemed to be fine and then this new law came into place. what was the impetus for? >> i think really the nra, who has really won every major battle in florida. does this fringe issues. they really don't have anything to do with a real victim, and we asked every proponent of the law, just give us that single person who was unfairly prosecuted, unfairly convicted or acquitted wh