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

[Bazinga]

30. I am not pretending there was not self-defense prior to SYG.

Your failure to recognize the purpose of SYG does not constitute "basic fact." The purpose of SYG is to protect those who have already been the victim of a life-threatening assault from over-zealous prosecutors who, in the comfort of their cushioned office chairs and with the omniscience of hindsight, can conceive a potential route of escape unknown to the victim in the heat of the moment.

Now I'm no fan of the NRA, ALEC, or the Koch's, and I don't like having legislation forced down people's throats by the rich and powerful any more than you are, but that is the real purpose of SYG. Whether the current iteration of the law successfully accomplished that purpose is up for debate. And like every other law, it is subject to the higher law of unintended consequences. But pretending that legislators intentionally wrote the law to legalize murder is absurd. Surely you recognize that.