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FL: 'Stand your ground' laws are common sense
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Floridas SYG laws, passed in 2005, are a legal justification for self-defense, the use of force in response to reasonable fear of imminent bodily harm or death. SYG laws clarify that there is no duty to flee from an attacker or assailant before one can invoke self-defense.
A duty to retreat is a legal concept devoid of common sense: what happens if an assailant is faster or stronger than you? Furthermore, what good is running away if your attacker has a gun? The duty to retreat does little more than to embolden criminals and to harm victims, legally and physically. Stand your ground laws are common sense, and put victims and potential victims, not criminals, first the way it should be. |
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Stripeseven
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| Duty to retreat...
.you could be dead by the time you've read this. Seconds count..... |
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