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hack89

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9. In Florida SYG favors the shooter regardless of race and blacks have a high rate of acquittal

Thu May 8, 2014, 09:23 AM

May 2014

http://www.tampabay.com/stand-your-ground-law/fatal-cases

The bigger issue is that the "data" you mention was focused on a tiny fraction of SYG cases, namely Black on White /White on Black to "prove" their point. In reality, interracial murder is uncommon - blacks shoot blacks and whites shoot whites. Since the number of such cases small, it only takes one or two convictions to produce large changes in conviction percentages - in other words the sample size is not large enough to produce statistically significant results.

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Atlanta woman using �stand your ground� defense found guilty of murder [View all] SecularMotion May 2014 OP

And your thoughts on this would be? blueridge3210 May 2014 #1

I'm going out on a limb here Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #2

Do you have data to support blueridge3210 May 2014 #3

I didn't keep links, but the data was widely reported Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #5

take a look at this if you're interested. Bazinga May 2014 #6

I think it means Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #7

That's definitely a possibility. Bazinga May 2014 #14

Someone slightly downthread Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #15

If you reread my analysis, I included all of those subsets. Bazinga May 2014 #16

Yes, it sounds like Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #18

In Florida SYG favors the shooter regardless of race and blacks have a high rate of acquittal hack89 May 2014 #9

aha Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #10

Look at the link I sent you hack89 May 2014 #12

And, btw, 'data' is 'data'. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #11

Except they never actually presented hard numbers hack89 May 2014 #13

not actually true gejohnston May 2014 #17

What's not actually true? Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #19

Yes I am gejohnston May 2014 #20

I guess she should have had a better understanding of the Self Defense law. ileus May 2014 #4

So SYG isn't a license to kill? I knew that. nt Eleanors38 May 2014 #8

In fairness, I think the argument against SYG is Nuclear Unicorn May 2014 #21

I agree, but I don't see some idiot, contemplating misuse of a gun, Eleanors38 May 2014 #22