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

[gejohnston]

47. for one thing

are they measuring all SYG states, or only those past since 2005? If the latter, it leaves out Illinois which passed its SYG law in 1961. It also would leave out SYG by court precedent in places like California and anyplace under federal jurisdiction.
If you look under Table one, it describes Wyoming's DTR law, but not its castle doctrine. The title is Castle doctrine. How do they define that state?
Those homicides would have likely happened anyway. If you look at figure one, the spike began in 2005. It peaked in 2007 and is now lower than 2000 level. Since those laws have not been repealed, why the drop instead of a continued climb or at least a plateau? Yes there are different factors in the drop, but there could also be the same various factors to the climb. Since SYG has been in the news, people are going to try to use it as a defense when it would not apply anyway.
I don't think they made a strong argument that those extra homicides are because of SYG. I would be better to go though the trials of each one and do a analysis based on that. Why do you put "justifiable" in quotations?