Task force launched to review Stand Your Ground law after Trayvon Martin shooting

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44. The NRA dreams them up

SYG wasn't a response to a gun control effort. It was dreamed up by the NRA folks when they didn't like court decisions that convicted gun users after killing people "unnecessarily". It was a reaction in essence to the "duty to retreat" concept that the courts had developed over the years.

One can make the case that those decisions had gone too far. There was alot of silliness about people dragging folks back over door steps and the like. But the end result has been a law that now encourages an "ability to pursue". As soon as you stick the gun in your pocket, you've chosen to understand the law in a certain amount of detail, and one should have some additional burden placed upon you for determining the appropriate use of the weapon.

The intent, and accomplishment, of the SYG law was to actually reduce the responsibility down as far as possible.

Their legislative model is to write the text of legislation, and then work as much as possible to avoid input from other interested parties, avoiding to the greatest extent possible any hearings, or opportunities for amendments, and then get it passed through intense lobbying efforts for specific legislators. Consensus building is NOT in the plan.