Week 2 EOC: Stand your ground

Stand-your-ground laws generally do not require people to retreat from others they fear intend them serious harm. Stand your ground laws are essentially a revocation of the duty to retreat.  Stand your ground laws generally state that, under certain circumstances, individuals can use force to defend themselves without first attempting to retreat from the danger.  The purpose behind these laws is to remove any confusion about when individuals can defend themselves and to eliminate prosecutions of people who legitimately used self-defense even though they had not attempted to retreat from the threat. (It is impossible to discuss stand your ground laws without first explaining the concept of the duty to retreat.  In its most extreme form, the duty to retreat states that a person who is under an imminent threat of personal harm must retreat from the threat as much as possible before responding with force in self-defense.) (Findlaw.com) I don't like Stand Your Ground laws it makes it difficult to determine the victim from the instigator, especially if only one survives.(Stand Your Ground laws — sometimes referred to as "Shoot First" laws by detractors — change the legal definition of self-defense for citizens who feel they are being confronted with deadly force or imminent danger.) (NBCNews.com). It depends on what side you’re looking at this law because (Florida's law — which extends protections for the use of deadly force far beyond the traditional bounds of one's home) (npr.org). You can understand how the George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin trial went the way it did. If Martin’s family took it to civil court they could challenge the section titled, "Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force."