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NM: Stand-your-ground laws can be lethal
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Information is still emerging about the case of Ahmaud Arbery — the unarmed 25-year-old slain on a quiet Georgia street — but what is known is disturbing. Two men eventually arrested in the killing told police that Arbery was running down the road and that they thought he was a burglar and shot him in self-defense. A third man was arrested Thursday. Before state officials intervened, following months of delay, a prosecutor cited Georgia’s stand-your-ground law as an exonerating factor.
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"Stand-your-ground laws change this traditional last resort — potentially lethal violence — into a permissible first resort. The idea is to empower victims of crime. Instead, the laws create more victims."
It does not in the first instance, and it does in the second. The time it takes to decide that one cannot retreat before acting increases the danger. The attacker has the advantage of surprise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife." Just so. And, if the Rand Corporation is "non-partisan," then I'm Pope Francis. Its 'studies' are anything but unbiased, and it has a documented history of dissembling with regard to the constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense. |
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