Monday, July 29, 2013

Week 2 EOC: Stand Your Ground


“Normally, a citizen has a duty to retreat when confronted with what they perceive to be deadly force. The Stand Your Ground doctrine mostly removes that, meaning citizens who feel threatened are no longer required to try to quell a situation first before having the right to use deadly force in self-defense.”
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/18/19522874-florida-had-first-stand-your-ground-law-other-states-followed-in-rapid-succession
In Other Words as a citizen I and anyone has the all the right to defend there self by any means necessary even if it mean using deadly force to harm the next person or people, with out first trying to remove them self from the situation. In other words I have all the right to stand were i am no mater what is taking place at the time and if I feel my life is in danger i have the right to kill or be killed. 
 “The duty to retreat states that a person who is under an imminent threat of personal harm must retreat from the threat as much as possible before responding with force in self-defense.” http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/stand-your-ground-laws.htm 
I to agree with this statement, yes u do have the right to stand "out side on public grounds" but if there is a chance that harm maybe brought your way. You should at less try to remove your self before taking action of self-defense "if there is the chance of doing so"
“There is no doubt that these laws create a dangerous perception that violence is always an option whenever anyone feels threatened, wherever they happen to be standing, because wherever they happen to be standing is defined as “their ground."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/07/17/eric-holder-rejects-stand-your-ground-does-the-bible/
True In the "Stand Your Ground law" but should we ask our self what if a person is on school grounds K-College grounds and a parent and or student feels they needed to defined there self by taking another persons life and maybe stand buyers around to say they have "a gun on them" legal or illegal.      

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