cybrsage
Lifer
- Nov 17, 2011
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Let me throw out a scenario for you.
Three people. Person A, B and C.
Person A is a man who is harassing a women (person C). There is a verbal altercation. Person B, being a chivalrous guy steps in to see if there is a problem. Person A tells him to mind his own business. B responds stating that A needs to leave the woman alone. The situation escalates into a shoving match and then full on fight. Person A gets taken down and has been punched a few good times and is getting his ass kicked when he decides to invoke lethal force, pulling out his gun and killing person B.
Does he deserve to go to jail under the stand your ground law?
Stand your ground does not allow you to attack someone and then claim you were defending yourself. Whoever escalated the verbal altercation into a physical one started the fight and is in the wrong.
Yes, there are times where a person is incited to violence, but that is very difficult to prove.
What you almost always see is a "I am tougher than you" or "I am just an hothead who cannot control myself" type of idiot who decides that physically attacking someone is a smart thing to do.