The "Stand Your Ground Law" Should Not be a Law

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Seventeen years ago, in a small town towards the southern part of Oregon, Springfield, a well-known mechanic went into a fast-food restaurant, walked behind a man who was eating lunch, and shot him in the back of the head. There had not been any sign of altercation that the man who was shot was carrying a firearm. But the shooter thought that the dead man had threatened his daughter. A local lawyer said that the dead man was in fact “a violent man, a drug dealer by trade.” Some people believe that the shooter should have left the case to the police, the local lawyer said, but the victim should also have “moderated his behavior.” George Zimmerman, a neighborhood-watch volunteer/wanna-be cop, believed that a black teenager was acting suspicious in a gated neighborhood. Not listening to the instructions of the police, Zimmerman confronted the young man just minutes before killing him. The police arrested Zimmerman, put him on trial, and the jury found him not guilty.

When a Florida jury took charge on a first degree murder charge against Michael Dunn, a software developer, the state's ...

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