Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The Missing Link

Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' Law Linked to Increase in Homicides, Study Finds [More]
And the link to the overwhelming number of homicides that are committed by criminals, meaning it does not apply...? And to how many were justifiable...?

And that NBC "News" conveniently neglected to mention from the "study":
Few evaluations of the impact of stand your ground laws on homicide have been conducted. Evaluations of Arizona’s and Texas’ stand your ground laws found no statistically significant impact on homicide.
They're incapable of self-correction, meaning mistrust of and outright contempt for "Authorized Journalists" will continue to grow.

[Via Bluesgal]

1 comment:

Bad Cyborg said...

"Our hypothesis was that these laws prevent people from taking alternative actions instead of using firearms in critical situations,"

I wasn't aware that "stand your ground" laws REQUIRED the person being threatened to stand their ground. I thought it merely gave them the OPTION not to retreat where formerly retreat was mandatory. If that is so, how could such a law reduce the available options?

Guess that's why the authors of the study are academics and I'm just a old, iggorant Trump voter.