The Wall Street Journal recently attacked stand-your-ground laws, blaming them for a rise in justifiable homicides in recent years. Entitled “Six Words Every Killer Should Know: ‘I Feared for My Life, Officer’”, the article claims the increase in justified shootings is due to dubious claims of self-defense.
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Stand-Your-Ground-Laws grabbed the national spotlight following the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012. Boiled down to the basics, the arguments were very much the same as those in the WSJ article and were based on the same assumption: Police and prosecutors are morons incapable of properly investigating crimes.
FYI: This is a really, really stupid assumption to make.
Every state has laws governing the use of any force and every state has its own standards specifying when it’s legal to escalate to use of deadly force in self-defense. While relatively few states have specific stand-your-ground statutes, the majority of states do not impose a duty to retreat before force can be used. Since exhausting all possible avenues of escape means increased peril for potential victims, most state lawmakers have enough sense to avoid such demands.
It will come as no surprise to anyone, other than gun control zealots and their fellow travelers in the mainstream media, the trend in justifiable homicides can be more accurately attributed to the explosive growth in handgun carry.
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