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NM: Stand-your-ground laws can be lethal
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Information is still emerging about the case of Ahmaud Arbery — the unarmed 25-year-old slain on a quiet Georgia street — but what is known is disturbing. Two men eventually arrested in the killing told police that Arbery was running down the road and that they thought he was a burglar and shot him in self-defense. A third man was arrested Thursday. Before state officials intervened, following months of delay, a prosecutor cited Georgia’s stand-your-ground law as an exonerating factor.
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"Stand-your-ground laws change this traditional last resort — potentially lethal violence — into a permissible first resort. The idea is to empower victims of crime. Instead, the laws create more victims."
It does not in the first instance, and it does in the second. The time it takes to decide that one cannot retreat before acting increases the danger. The attacker has the advantage of surprise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife." Just so. And, if the Rand Corporation is "non-partisan," then I'm Pope Francis. Its 'studies' are anything but unbiased, and it has a documented history of dissembling with regard to the constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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