Duty to retreat vs stand your ground and castle laws: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

[Major Nikon]

81. The law should be abolished

You're suggesting that everyone who uses a firearm in self defense gets arrested and prosecuted and that's not even close to reality both before and after the shoot first law. There's still a grand jury system. There's still prosecutorial standards which must be met. As far as civil cases go, if a case will be easily dismissed if there isn't sufficient relevant facts to support the lawsuit and those that bring frivolous lawsuits can be countersued for doing so.

The fringe nuts at the NRA manage to frighten everyone into thinking these things happen all the time. They don't. They are exceedingly rare, and when they do there are plenty of protections built into the justice system already for those who have legitimate cases of self defense. So why do we need a law that fixes a "problem" that didn't exist in the first place and only serves to cheapen life? Instead of worrying what you should do if you're charged or sued for protecting yourself, you should be more worried about someone ending your life because they can't control their anger.

The NRA tries to paint the US as the wild west and everyone needs to become Wyatt Earp. The problem is that even the wild west wasn't that way, so the reality is they are just selling some fucked up John Wayne notion of how things are or should be.