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PA: Don't excuse gun violence
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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So-called “stand-your-ground” laws originally were meant to ensure that someone could not be prosecuted for using deadly force in self-defense when that was the only option. State laws generally included a “duty to retreat” to avoid violent confrontations whenever possible.
But beginning about a decade ago, a wave of states including Pennsylvania vastly altered those laws to protect overtly offensive rather than purely defensive behavior by people using deadly force, most often with guns. |
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jac
(8/3/2018)
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The whiners complaining about stand your ground in the Clearwater shooting ignore an important fact. The victim was on the ground and couldn't retreat when he shot his attacker. |
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