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

[Bazinga]

158. What's to prevent the exact same scenario from occurring under duty to retreat?

All you would have to do is wait until I pass a dead end street, stand with your back to it, and voila! A fool proof way to murder an innocent person.

Really, what is the difference between your scenario and one in which you decide to murder me, so you pick a time and a place where there will be no witnesses, no evidence?

No self-defense law was ever meant to protect murderers. Nor are they meant to prevent murder from occurring. We have laws against murder for that.

Now let's try the scenario this way. We'll do away with the cane and instead say I'm armed with my 9mm, and we are in a duty to retreat jurisdiction. You decide you are going to kill me while I am on a walk with my wonderful wife. You step out of your hiding place and shove me. My first instinct is to hold you off until Mrs Bazinga can run away, so I draw my weapon. In the ensuing fight I manage to land a shot that stops the fight, but unfortunately, you die in the hospital the next day from the injuries. The DA, who is running for Senate next fall, decides that since my wife was able to retreat, I should have been able to as well. I get charged with murder, vilified for the next 18 months in a trial by media that dissects every mistake I've ever made, convicted of manslaughter, and spend 5 years in jail.

What is there in Duty to retreat to prevent that?