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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is interesting:

Missouri passed a “Stand Your Ground” bill in 2016. Under the law, a person may use physical force if they reasonably believe they are under threat and have no duty to retreat. According to a study released last year, homicides drastically rose in Missouri after the law was enacted.[/quote]

Not surprised but I also hate this wishy washy language.  “Reasonably believe’ to me means ‘as long as the psychopathic murderer says they felt threatened, they are innocent’.  You could claim all sorts of crap and get away with it.[/quote]

“Reasonably” in the law means an objective standard not a subjective one — would a reasonable person in that circumstance feel endangered.  The problem is that “reasonable” is judged after the fact, by a jury who may also be crazy yahoos.  Also, even if the jury is good and the guy gets Congo it’s, that doesn’t help the person who has been shot.  These laws are just awful and pretty much only supported by racist gun nuts like the guy who shot Trayvon Martin.  I would not want to live in a stand your group state and definitely not if I were a black person.[/quote]

PP again and thanks for the clarification.  I just can’t see how reasonable is objective when it is so dependent on the person sitting on the jury.  But your post seems to also find that troubling.[/quote]

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