Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Wow, Wow, Wow.....No Gun Zones, Gun Registration, Background Checks and now Micro-stamping again! [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)When you change a law, you are either making it more strict or you are making it less strict. It's one or the other. SYG laws are a LOOSENING of strictures. Across the board, they take laws that require DTR or other alternatives to opening fire to be enacted first, and then scrub those out and instead say "go ahead and shoot first"
Your automatic assumption is that when the justifiable homicide laws are loosened and there's suddenly a sevenfold increase in homicides ruled justified, that all must be right in the world and nothing could possibly be amiss there. And maybe you're right - there doesn't seem to be any specific data for that. I'm simply pointing out that much as when business strictures are loosened, it may just be a situation where inefficiency is entering the system and increasing the cost to the communities.
Of course, if you're measuring success by how many homicides are ruled to be legally justified - which does seem to be what you're doing - you're not exactly casting yourself or your position in the most positive of lights, y'know?