JimBowie1958
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Bullshit. Homicide does not = murder.
Stunning Report: "Stand Your Ground" Laws Responsible for 500-700 Homicides Per year - NewsRadio 1200 WOAI, San Antonio
The researchers presume it would have defused the situation for a party to retreat, and besides, criminals do not have the right to shove law-abiding citizens around like cowards.
Fuck these gun-grabbing slime-balls, and it is a disgrace that Texas A&M had that POS 'research' done there.
Stunning Report: "Stand Your Ground" Laws Responsible for 500-700 Homicides Per year - NewsRadio 1200 WOAI, San Antonio
Research conducted at Texas A&M University concludes that far from reducing crime rates, so called 'Stand your Ground' laws are actually responsible for a drastic increase in the number of homicides nationwide each year.
"We find the laws increase murder and manslaughter by a statistically significant 7 to 9 percent, which translates into an additional 500 to 700 homicides per year nationally in states which have adopted Castle Doctrine," researchers Cheng Cheng and Mark Hoekstra of the Texas A&M University Department of Economics say in their report.
The report also shows an increase in what is termed 'justifiable homicide' by up to 50% annually. They say data released by the states showed a sharp increase in justifiable homicide in the years immediately after they approved Stand Your Ground laws.
"Castle Doctrine," or "Stand Your Ground" laws are currently in pace in 23 states, and new attention was focused on the laws by the shooting of Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Florida in February. The laws remove the so called 'duty to retreat' which dates from English Common Law. That tradition holds that before a person can use deadly force against an attacker, they must first take affirmative steps to defuse the situation.
The researchers say in many of the additional cases of murder and justifiable homicide they researched, the killing occurred because the "Stand Your Ground" law allowed the situation to escalate, where it would have otherwise been defused, largely by one of the individuals retreating.
The researchers presume it would have defused the situation for a party to retreat, and besides, criminals do not have the right to shove law-abiding citizens around like cowards.
Fuck these gun-grabbing slime-balls, and it is a disgrace that Texas A&M had that POS 'research' done there.