The law gives broad legal protections to a person who is attacked not only at home, but "any other place where he or she has a right to be," and removes a common-law duty to retreat in the face of attack.
Uh, how does one retreat if the perp has a gun?
7 posted on 09/29/2005 4:19:33 AM PDT by mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
Exactly, but the way it was before the law, the victim was "obliged" to retreat. Now they can stand their ground and not be held responsible if the perp gets hurt.