> Critics of the law said the high rate of suspects avoiding
> prison time points to a flaw inherent with the system.
>
> “The issue that I am seeing is that it allows discretion by
> the average person,” said Jordon. “It does allow for too
> much discretion.”
These are two false arguments. To start with, a person who defends themselves is not a “suspect”, and “avoiding” prison time is legal, “evading” prison time would not be legal. People avoid prison time all the time, by following the law.
Second, “discretion” does not exist when someone is threatening you with assault, mayhem or murder. Your only choice is to submit or fight back.
And, I might add that the jackasses who suggest that a woman being raped, “lay back and enjoy it”, instead of resisting, are both morally and tactically failures, because *any* resistance to aggression radically increases the “degree of difficulty” of aggression, and slashes the likelihood of the aggression having the preferred outcome for the aggressor.
“The issue that I am seeing is that it allows discretion by
the average person,” said Jordon. “It does allow for too
much discretion.”
Note “Jordan’s” implication that the average person lacks the discretion to judge when his/her own life is in danger, but someone else not in harm’s way or even present (the police perhaps?) would know better.