|
|
|
NOTE!
This is a real-time comments system. As such, it's also a
free speech zone within guidelines set forth on the Post
Comments page. Opinions expressed here may or may not
reflect those of KeepAndBearArms staff, members, or
any other living person besides the one who posted them.
Please keep that in mind. We ask that all who post
comments assure that they adhere to our Inclusion
Policy, but there's a bad apple in every
bunch, and we have no control over bigots and
other small-minded people. Thank you. --KeepAndBearArms.com
|
The
Below Comments Relate to this Newslink:
Study Shows What Happens When You Legalize Vigilante ‘Self-Defense’
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
|
There
is 1 comment
on this story
Post Comments | Read Comments
|
One of Florida's most controversial laws may be linked to a significant increase in homicides.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) led by the University of Oxford, found the "Stand Your Ground" law – which allows people to use force, even deadly force in case of self-defense – may have contributed to a “24 percent rise in monthly homicide from 2005 to 2014 and 31.6 percent increase in firearms-related homicide in the Sunshine State.”
Ed.: Self-defense isn't vigilantism. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(11/17/2016)
|
"Self-defense isn't vigilantism."
Indeed. This article appears to conflate justifiable homiscide with unjustified homicides, thus the clueless reader will simply leave with the impression that the SYG laws increase murder rates.
A little less hysteria and more clarity is called for.
Any death is a tragedy, but we have to understand that a self-defense shooting is justifiable because an innocent person is defending his (or HER!!!!) life against mortal violence. |
|
|
| QUOTES
TO REMEMBER |
| Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
|
|
