Thanks, Stand Your Ground! No homicide charges for teen who shot, killed man

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26. the law already allowed for self defense before SYG

SYG was promoted by ALEC, the NRA and the Koch Brothers. It's goal was to encourage greater use of guns. The law has done precisely what it was intended to do: it has led to more killings where safe retreat was possible. Self defense has been legal for centuries. SYG does not legalize what was already the law. It enables people to use disproportionate force, to put their guns to what the right sees as a productive purpose, killing. Obviously that was the intent. There is no other purpose for the law. Pretending self defense wasn't legal before SYG is bullshit. The difference now is that one need not retreat even when it is perfectly safe to do so. To legalize killing when a safe retreat exists is to legalize murder. It changes killing from the last resort to the first resort. Those are basic facts.