It still baffles me, fundamentally at my core, how anyone can oppose a “stand your ground” law. Maybe you’re just opposing the implementation but not the concept?
I’ve been a violent crime victim on multiple occasions, and I’m also a minority which is often targeted with physical harassment, rape, and murder for simply existing. I wonder if people opposed to SYG laws have ever been in a real, non-Hollywood life-or-death situation where a weapon was the only thing between them and death - or if this is nothing more than the latest end-run of the anti-gun movement.
In the legal training I went through in Kansas, the attorney who wrote the material for the course claimed that SYG was intended to remove the “deadly hesitation” factor for self-defense. In short, to allow someone whose life was threatened to have the confidence to act to protect themselves and other innocents, rather than wait out of fear of being a criminal themselves if an activist prosecutor or inept jury somehow decided they could have somehow escaped by impossible means.
At least that’s what they taught us. However, despite this state being both a Castle and SYG state, I certainly will try everything possible to avoid a confrontation and violent situation. I would never even think of doing what that idiot Zimmerman did. That being said, I also know I will never be raped or beaten nearly to death again without a fight and I will shoot, stab, or physically injure anyone who tries it again.