Stand Your Ground Law Essay

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Kendo Lyn Cline 10-07-14 Dre-098 Stand your ground law promotes vigilantism and provides loopholes for murderers. The stand your ground law states that,” A person may use deadly force in self-defense without the duty to retreat when faced with a reasonable perceived threat.” Stand your ground laws should be outlawed nationwide because of inability of understanding regards of the law, inability of writing effective laws, and inability of common individuals to make life and death decisions. Stand your ground laws should be outlawed because of the inability of understanding regards of the law. People seem to not understand what the word threatens really means. A simple fist fight can lead to a person being shot over absolutely nothing.…show more content…
This law leads to several unjustified killings. The Traven Martin story isn’t the only story of this law being misused. In 2006 a man shoots a guy after a disagreement over trash bags on the curve. A guy was taking out his trash and sat eight bags out. His neighbor got upset because it was suppose to only been six bags. Now I don’t feel a man should feel threaten by plastic bags if there not on his face. The two got into an argument and the man shot him in the stomached. Keep in mind this all started over trash on a curve. He walked because they said he felt threaten from the argument he had started. They seem to fail to realize you can’t prove self-defense if one party is dead. So many people are misusing this law that the government has written to justify a situation. Third, stand your ground law should be outlawed because of the inability of common individuals to make life and death decisions. I have researched a few stories behind the stand your ground law and its amazing how so many people have got away with murder. People seem to be taking what they believe to be justice in their own hands. Doing something off your own opinion isn’t always the right thing to do. You may not like people who wear red shirts. Do you think they should die? Your own prejudice can allow you to take a life and not feel bad about
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