stand your ground. yes? no?

[rrneck]

33. "Some of us actually know the law"

Well, let's just have a look at this one, shall we?

"If someone thinks people should be able to shoot first even when a SAFE retreat exists, then they like SYG."

Define "SAFE retreat" for us. Make sure you take into consideration every possible venue, potential strength and weakness of assailant and victim, and possible bystanders who may need defending. Oh, and make sure you define the number of assailants too. If you want to sound all definitive, you need to define what you're talking about. Since you seem to think you know the law.

That act, however, is a deliberate decision to kill another human being. It is choosing to kill first because someone feels like it.

Nice leap there. Yes, it's a deliberate decision, but you vaulted over why that decision is made to turn your sanctimony into an indictment.

It is not about saving their life. Self defense has been a legal justification for centuries.

If it's not about saving a life, how can it be legally justified? Make up your mind.

For those who spend their entire life looking for the opportunity to kill another person, they see SYG as allowing them to get away with it.

And you know who "those" people are, I suppose.

It's a right wing law promoted by ALEC, the NRA, and the Koch brothers.

So it's a political distinction, eh? Evil bloodthirsty conservatives create a law that allows their brainwashed minions to kill others without consequences. It's all a big conspiracy. Got it.

You're so busy writing the political equivalent of a Harlequin Romance you fail to see the possible flaws in SYG. I have a sneaking suspicion they're there, but nobody will see them if they keep turning politics into some sort of personal fundamental religious scrum.