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Title: More Killings Called Self-Defense
Source: Wall Street Journal
URL Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100 ... 4574462.html?mod=djemalertNEWS
Published: Mar 30, 2012
Author: JOE PALAZZOLO AND ROB BARRY
Post Date: 2012-03-31 22:01:51 by lucysmom
Keywords: None
Views: 6097
Comments: 15

At a time when the overall U.S. homicide rate is declining, more civilians are killing each other and claiming self-defense—a trend that is most pronounced in states with new "stand your ground" laws.

These laws, which grant people more leeway to attack and even kill someone who is threatening them, are attracting close scrutiny following February's controversial killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida by a neighborhood watchman. Florida has one of the broadest self-defense laws of the 25 states with some version of a "stand your ground" principle.

So-called justifiable homicides nearly doubled from 2000 to 2010, the most ...

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#5. To: lucysmom (#0)

leeway to attack and even kill someone who is threatening them

That is a good thing.

Abcdefg  posted on  2012-04-01   0:05:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Abcdefg (#5)

That is a good thing.

"It's an obscene law and a license to kill," said Barbara Standard, whose 46-year-old son, Scott Sumner Standard, was shot to death in January 2011 outside his house in Ozello, Fla. The neighbor who killed him claimed self-defense, saying Standard had thrown a rock at his truck's windshield.

articles.latimes.com/2012...nd-your-ground-20120325/2

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"It's an obscene law and a license to kill," said Barbara Standard, whose 46-year-old son, Scott Sumner Standard, was shot to death in January 2011 outside his house in Ozello, Fla. The neighbor who killed him claimed self-defense, saying Standard had thrown a rock at his truck's windshield.

It is not an obscene law, and you have a right to defend yourself with or without that law. You can kill someone by throwing a rock through a windshield. I didn't read your story, but was he driving?

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