Drunk Blind Man Kills Friend, Stands Ground, Gets Guns Back

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“The legally blind Florida man who shot and killed his friend after a drunken argument and was let free under the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law has been given his guns back.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that on Feb. 20, Judge John Galluzzo reluctantly ruled that John Wayne Rogers, 40, had a right to have the .308 caliber rifle he killed James DeWitt with and a 10mm pistol returned to him.

“It’s my constitutional right to bear arms,” Rogers told the newspaper. Rogers, who reportedly lost most of his sight in a 2001 industrial accident, cannot drive.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Julia Dahl / CBS News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/legally-blind-florida-man-who-killed-friend-gets-guns-back/

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