Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Repeal or Amend ?

          The Stand Your Ground law could use some changes and additions to its' regulations in order to prevent the amount of deaths from increasing even more. A couple of protests have gone on about repealing the law, but would this be a good idea? 
          If the stand your ground law happened to be repealed, and a person's house got broken into, that person would be obligated to leave their home instead of defending themselves. Guster (2012) stated that amending the law would allow change by adding language to prevent certain situations from repeating.
         This law would then make it so the actual attacker would not be able to hide behind this defense law, which goes back to the case against Zimmerman. By amending the Stand Your Ground law, it would include more regulations and changes as to how a person can utilize it. If more states amended this law, then America would not be going down this path where murder is okay and no type of punishment is given out.
         I strongly agree that this law should consist of being able to use deadly force but only if a person is absolutely unable to retreat and flee the scene.
       

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