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Related: About this forumKill At Will: Stand Your Ground Laws Contribute To 600 Additional Homicides A Year
This news comes just as the nation learned that 26 children or teens have died in Florida alone under the kill at will self-defense law.
We asked what happened to homicide rates in states that passed these laws between 2000 and 2010, compared to other states over the same time period. We found that homicide rates in states with a version of the Stand Your Ground law increased by an average of 8 percent over states without it which translates to roughly 600 additional homicides per year. These homicides are classified by police as criminal homicides, not as justifiable homicides.
It is fitting that much of this debate has centered on Florida, which enacted its law in October of 2005. Florida provides a case study for this more general pattern. Homicide rates in Florida increased by 8 percent from the period prior to passing the law (2000-04) to the period after the law (2006-10).By comparison, national homicide rates fell by 6 percent over the same time period. This is a crude example, but it illustrates the more general pattern that exists in the homicide data published by the FBI.
http://globalgrind.com/2014/02/14/stand-your-ground-laws-contribute-600-additional-homicides-a-year-details/
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)quadrature
(2,049 posts)petronius
(26,603 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
until we have names and circumstances it's an agenda driven number.
spin
(17,493 posts)when I am attacked by an individual who intends to put me in the hospital for a long stay or six feet under? Of course he has to have the weapon or the overwhelming physical superiority to do so. Also I should not be the individual who initiated the altercation and allowed it to to rise to the level of extreme violence.
If I am in a place where I have every right to be and am not engaged in criminal activity should I basically be forced to tie one hand behind my back and give the advantage to my attacker?
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)How many of those justifiable homicides would have otherwise been victims of death or grave bodily harm?
It also begs the question, how many innocent people are in prison because they didn't retreat enough to please some DA?
Which has what to do with criminology or sociology? How about an actual peer reviewed study in a criminology journal?