Self-Defense Under Attack

Reason ^ | April 25, 2012 | Jacob Sullum

[Vendome]

Morons!

It isn’t a stand your ground case!

He was on his back on the ground! He’d ceded about as much as he could before acting in Self Defense.

Doesn’t matter. The case is so thin it won’t make it past May 8th.

[Iron Munro]

When you are slugged from behind and find yourself laying on the ground with a healthy black teenager pounding your head into the pavement you don't stop and think:

"If I shoot this scumbag will I be covered by the 'Stand-Your-Ground-Law' or should I just let him turn my brains into mashed potatoes?"

[Condor51]

... a right to "stand your ground" in public places, which eliminated the duty to retreat from an assailant.

Here's the problem with "the duty to retreat from an assailant". Many people CAN'T retreat.

Either from a medical condition, age, or the situation at hand. Or due to a combination thereof. If you're facing eminent danger of life or limb you have to stay and defend yourself. And that's that.

A young strapping 30 year old who just had knee surgery and has to to a cane can't run away (retreat). Or an older person with a cane, walker, or in a wheelchair. In those situations the feral street vermin look at you as an easy target, which you are if unarmed. Not to mention the average female who'd be any easy target for a Rapist.

But the gun-grabbers know this and don't give a crap. They want POWER over the masses and an unarmed people are the easiest to control. And if a few people get killed along the way so be it. It's for the 'Greater Good' (theirs not ours). As they say, 'The End Justifies The Means'.

However, that saying works both ways. As my 'End' is to stay alive and not become a victim. Which 'Justifies' any 'Means' I choose to achieve that 'End'.
(yes I'm in IL and technically I'm supposed to be a 'voluntary victim' when outside, ha!)