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the other interesting thing is that inmates this george zimmerman
controversy there's a lot of talk about the stand your ground laws and
justifiable homicide cases have tripled
in florida since the stand your ground law was enacted
this is according to the florida department of law enforcement data and
other states have also seen similar increases you surprised about this
because the argument is that bill stand your ground law does not really lead to
more violence per se
i mean the then you can ask you saw for these things that would have happened
anyway
and just deemed undefinable right
so uh... well here's the numbers have been in the five years before the
passage of florida's stand your ground bar
there were twenty have a ridge of twelve killings by private citizens per year
declared justifiable
most justifiable killings are committed by police officers are banned in those
cases
uh... which have also tripled
those are included in the statistics are looking at the ones that were not by law
enforcement officials and the five years since the law passed the number has
spiked to about thirty-six
justifiable homicides per year from twelve to thirty six so we have to think
about this twofold
or they're the same number of killings but now many were considered justifiable
whereas in the past they wouldn't have been
or as their law actually resulted in more people being willing to kill under
the guise that they assume it will be deemed justifiable it's hard to tell
which in this right i think the number we should be looking at is the overall
uh... homicides number of homicides
justifiable and not have those gone up
uh... pastor the standard on loans were enacted
well the tampa bay times has identified at least a hundred and thirty cases in
florida in which the shooter cited the stand your ground water defender actions
and in at least fifty of those cases
prosecutors decided not to bring any charges so i think that's how i first
day that the standard ground laws are having a definitive impact over how guns
are used
and how law enforcement is choosing to deal with people who use those guns to
kill people
also just on a more basic level maybe we should look at whether more guns were
purchased
because people might be more willing to think about gun use of when they know
that they have a law that will help them
uh... defend themselves by claiming softphone spokane conversely might be
able to influence the handguns simply because of the
fear of others using guns against them and citing the found standard ground
london there's a lot of variables yeah i think we all agree that nothing good
comes out of along with this
well known we would all agree about that amina in this room we might rights are
not even talking about bosnia
but after this from
when we know we know better