Pros And Cons Of Stand Your Ground Law

The major problem is that the Stand Your Ground Law is misused and too many innocent killings are taking place. Killing charges have been dismissed or defendants were acquitted or not charged at all. Understanding Stand Your Ground Law article stated ‘since, the Stand Your Ground law has been invoked more than 200 cases in Florida where charges were dismissed or defendants were acquitted or not charged at all. (2012)” That’s just in one state. The SYG (Stand Your Ground) law is in over 20 states.

According to, Article Understanding Stand Your Ground Law “out of 113 cases, 35% not charged or the case was dismissed and 23%, Out of 38 cases were granted immunity by a judge, and 10% out of 16 Cases acquitted by jury. Out 26 Cases a jury only found

That law works like this: if Dunn had a reasonable fear that he was about to suffer “great bodily harm,” then he had a legal right to shoot Davis to death, rather than, for example, choosing to protect himself by driving away, even if Dunn knew that driving away would have protected him from harm. If you think that sounds crazy, you haven’t heard the half of it, because the stand your ground law creates an affirmative defense for criminal defendants, the prosecution had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Dunn’s claim that he had a reasonable fear he was about to suffer great bodily harm was false. Such laws, in effect, put the victim rather than the killer on trial, which is exactly what happened in this case.” said, Andrew

According to The Washington Post, “repealing or changing legislation is generally difficult, so opponents of the laws will face uphill climbs in seeking the changes they want to see happen”(2013). The law protects shooters from civil suits, where the burden of proof for a civil judgment is lower. What we can do is get petitions started and go around getting the governments attention, writing proposals and send them to office, and don’t vote the law in the upcoming ballets in the states that don’t already have them. The cost of getting the law appealed or adjusted is, an innocent civilian cannot no longer protect their self’s in public. That sounds like a major lost, but it is not. The law was made to protect people in public, but how can you really prove that you were actually in harm’s way. If you can’t prove who is the real victim then how is this really protecting anyone from the public. The law did nothing but create massive killings and problems in Florida and the United States. The stand your ground law is extremely vague and did nothing, but help multiple criminals get away with murder or manslaughter charges, because they claimed it was