No Need To Change Stand Your Ground Laws

The extent to which the Second Amendment applies and the particular laws that go hand in hand with it have long been contested by Americans. One of the more recent debates regarding it involves the Stand Your Ground laws. These laws outline that citizens have “No duty to retreat from the situation before resorting to deadly force; not limited to your property (home, office, etc.)” (“States That Have” Par. 3). These laws have been fiercely contested primarily due to the incident involving George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin in the February of 2012. People are often very stubborn regarding such issues, however, in her article “There is No Need to Change Stand Your Ground Laws” (published November 13, 2012 in the Palm Beach Post), Dara Kam uses her experience covering political issues along with a very straight forward
1). Needless to say the mature reporter is capable of writing an effective article and “There is No Need to Change Stand Your Ground Laws” is no exception. In her introduction, Kam immediately opens up her argument by affirming her position and justifying it. She introduces the task force that was created, in the wake of the Zimmerman case, to determine exactly what her article stands for: keeping the stand your ground laws as is. Kam also uses this time to set up the credibility of her sources. The task force was appointed by Governor Rick Scott and was “comprised of prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, law enforcement officials and Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Krista Marx” (Kam Par. 6). However, the experienced journalist isn’t without candor and also quoted the attorney, Benjamin Crump, who was representing the parents of Trayvon Martin. Crump was fiercely against the law and thought it gave too much freedom to