"Legally allowing women to shoot their rapists only encourages murders."

[caseymoz]

52. Um, I didn't say the two situations were alike

So, you've presented a straw man.

In fact, my point was they're not alike, but the same defense will be invoked with both, and in fact, police probably won't even try to determine of the key rattling was neighbor case was self-defense. If you think the irritable home owner can't get off the hook with the SYG law, that's why we disagree. I encourage you to look up some of the egregious cases where it has been used as a defense before you state I'm wrong. On some of them, the SYG defender, was, in fact, the aggressor. Definitely that's how some citizens are reading the law.