Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: "Legally allowing women to shoot their rapists only encourages murders." [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)In many states, SYG offers civil immunity in any case where the victim was not criminally charged for killing his or her attacker. That was most definitely in question prior to many SYG laws, in many states.
Several states also had a 'duty to retreat'. A silly requirement.
'last resort' is sort of begging the question. It's like the saying, 'your keys are always in the last place you look', because well, duh, you'd be an idiot if you kept looking after you found them.
"Yet, we are seeing more homicides where self-defense is the excuse with SYG having been passed."
Florida has had a small increase in justifiable homicides. Not quite a doubling, to about 200 per year. They also have a declining murder rate. Care to establish whether or not some of those justifiable homicides are not simply un-just murder charges that were re-classified? In the presentation of racial bias in the application of SYG laws, there have been several instances of people who appeared perfectly justifiable going to jail anyway.