Comments on: A “Stand Your Ground” backgrounder https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/03/stand-ground-backgrounder/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:55:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jazzizhep https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/03/stand-ground-backgrounder/comment-page-1/#comment-274215 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:55:41 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=44596#comment-274215

Stand your ground statutes “cannot be statistically linked with the rise in justifiable homicides.” However, the newspaper found that “in states with both SYG laws and the weakest gun controls” there exists “a statistical correlation with an increase in justifiable homicides.”

Who would have guessed that states allowing concealed carry of a firearm would result in more people using the firearm in a “justifiable homicide” scenario?

]]> By: Robert https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/03/stand-ground-backgrounder/comment-page-1/#comment-274010 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:46:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=44596#comment-274010 Excellent article. (It’s sad that Zimmerman’s self defense became associated with “stand your ground” because someone who has been knocked to the ground and is having his head bashed into the sidewalk clearly _can’t_ reatreat.) I’m a Californian and had no idea that California already had a “stand your ground” concept firmly established in its law.

Surely David Holder must know about the law, too. Which makes his grandstanding over the person Obama said could be “his son” in Florida even more disgusting.

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