Texas A&M Study Says Castle-Doctrine Laws Increase Homicides, Don't Deter Crime

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10. Nope. Even the author of the study disagrees with you

"One theory is that these are in some sense legitimate self-defense killings that just don't meet the strict definition of justifiable homicide," Hoekstra

"The homicide increase also presents another issue for the researchers. How do you determine who died in a castle doctrine situation: the alleged criminal or the person allegedly defending themselves? The FBI data Hoekstra and Cheng studied doesn't show that kind of detail, and Hoekstra says it's crucial in figuring out what's driving the homicide increase. The answer, he says, is another study."

Basically you are reading something in the study that simply isn't there. The data they are using doesn't show who died defending themselves, only those who met the arbitrarily strict definition of justified homicide.