If an individual is not committing and crime and is legally allowed to be somewhere and another individual is charging at them in an aggressive manor and making threats. Is the first individual legally allowed to draw a deadly weapon that they are legally allowed to be in possession of?
I’ve been thinking about this recently and I’ve thought that if I was a store owner and looters tried breaching my store, I would want to be armed and I think it’s justified to shoot people who don’t leave the property and pose a danger to you. Would you guys support legislation protecting these stand your ground situations?
But there was no reason for kids to stay up listening for Santa’s sleigh bells after that.
Why do most women reject having a gun and would prefer to go with pepper spray instead of a lethal way even in states with stand your ground laws?
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This change has no impact on justified homicides, only illegal and unjustified killings.
>Self-defense gun use is not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions
>Victims use guns in less than 1% of contact crimes, and women never use guns to protect themselves against sexual assault (in more than 300 cases). Victims using a gun were no less likely to be injured after taking protective action than victims using other forms of protective action. Compared to other protective actions, the National Crime Victimization Surveys provide little evidence that self-defense gun use is uniquely beneficial in reducing the likelihood of injury or property loss.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25910555/
>Results indicate that Stand your Ground laws increase total homicides by around 8 percent. Put differently, the laws induce an additional 600 homicides per year across the 21 states in our sample that expanded the laws over this time period. This finding is robust to a wide set of difference- in- differences specifications, including region- by- year fixed effects, state-specific linear time trends, and controls for time-varying factors such as economic conditions, state welfare spending, and policing and incarceration rates. These findings provide evidence that lowering the expected cost of lethal force causes there to be more of it.
>This study provides compelling evidence that the repeal of Missouri’s PTP handgun licensing law, which required all handgun purchasers to pass a background check even for purchases from private sellers, contributed to a sharp increase in Missouri’s homicide rate. Our estimates suggest that the law was associated with an additional 55 to 63 murders per year in Missouri between 2008 and 2012 than would have been forecasted had the PTP handgun law not been repealed. Our analyses ruled out several alternative hypotheses to explain the relatively large and highly statistically significant increase in firearm homicides in Missouri following the repeal of its PTP handgun licensing law. We controlled for changes in unemployment, poverty, policing levels, incarceration rates, trends in crime reflected in burglary rates, national trends in homicide rates, and several kinds of other laws that could affect homicides. That Missouri’s sharp increase in firearm homicides was unique within the region, specific to firearm
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