But what the study does seem to show is that stand your ground benefits defendants a majority of the time and it matters little, if any, what color the shooter or the victim was.
Society may not yet be colorblind, but stand your ground seems to be.
It should not be a rallying point for racial grandstanding.
via Editorial: Stand your ground isn’t about race | StAugustine.com.
It will fall on many deaf ears, but at least some in the media are clear on the Race Card issue regarding SYG.
“the shooter or the victim”??? In a self defense case, aren’t those the same person?
Of course not! If you attack me with a knife and stab me half a dozen times before I get a shot off, and I only wing you to run off and stab again another day…
You’re the “victim” because guns trump pretty much everything.
Unless I’m black, muslim, female, gay, etc…
News isn’t the business of truth.
Now quit your though-crimes before you ruin us all.