Florida Man Uses Stand Your Ground Defense in Killing of Black Teen Over Loud Music

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8. Why Even Go Up to the Car

This shooting is another example of how Stand Your Ground give courage to people who might not otherwise have it and causes confrontations that might not otherwise happen. I think Michael Dunn would never have approached the vehicle if he would not have been able to use SYG. There was no reason to even go up to the car. Even if their music was extremely loud he could have just gone about his business, got what he needed, and then left.

My family and I occasionally hear people playing their music loud in their cars. One of my family members thinks the practice of playing music loud is played out and should no longer be done. However, we never go up to them to tell them to turn their music down. I guess part of it is that we never thought we had the right to go up to someone minding their own business in their car and tell them to turn down their music. We may have also felt there was no point to such an action in that in the best case the people would most likely say no in the worst case there would be an argument. It would be foolish to start an argument over music.