Stand Your Ground Law Research Paper
Jamya Copeland
Ms.Abdullah
Oral/Written Composition
Effects Of The Current Stand Your Ground Law
Michael Brown was an 18 year old African American teenager, who was fatally shot by Darren Wilson a white ferguson police officer. Darren wasn’t charged because of the Stand Your Ground law. A Stand Your Ground law is a law that authorizes a person to protect and defend one’s life and limb against threat or perceived threat. This law states that an individual has no duty to retreat from any place he or she has a lawful right to be and may use any level of force, including lethal, if he or she reasonably believes he or she faces an imminent and immediate threat of serious bodily harm or death. Although some people may believe that the stand your ground law is just and fair,Many people could take advantage of the law by causing unnecessary harm to people, There for the Stand Your Ground law should be abolished.
Although some may believe that the stand your ground law is a good idea, it comes with many flaws.The stand your ground law overlooks the adverse effects such as abolition would have on women who respond to domestic violence.In the states where it has been implemented, the stand your ground law results in a higher rate of violence (jackson). As jackson states, the stand your ground law doesn’t …show more content…
The Stand your ground laws originated from the general right to self defense, rooted in both natural law and the constitution” (fair). For example the laws on self defense vary from state to state, but in general there allowed to use reasonable physical force to protect there self from imminent or immediate physical injury, you can only use that amount of force that’s necessary to stop the threat of harm. For example, if you get into an arguement with someone and the other person lunges at one or threatens to punch one, they can protect yourself by fighting back. We want less people hurt or
Ms.Abdullah
Oral/Written Composition
Effects Of The Current Stand Your Ground Law
Michael Brown was an 18 year old African American teenager, who was fatally shot by Darren Wilson a white ferguson police officer. Darren wasn’t charged because of the Stand Your Ground law. A Stand Your Ground law is a law that authorizes a person to protect and defend one’s life and limb against threat or perceived threat. This law states that an individual has no duty to retreat from any place he or she has a lawful right to be and may use any level of force, including lethal, if he or she reasonably believes he or she faces an imminent and immediate threat of serious bodily harm or death. Although some people may believe that the stand your ground law is just and fair,Many people could take advantage of the law by causing unnecessary harm to people, There for the Stand Your Ground law should be abolished.
Although some may believe that the stand your ground law is a good idea, it comes with many flaws.The stand your ground law overlooks the adverse effects such as abolition would have on women who respond to domestic violence.In the states where it has been implemented, the stand your ground law results in a higher rate of violence (jackson). As jackson states, the stand your ground law doesn’t …show more content…
The Stand your ground laws originated from the general right to self defense, rooted in both natural law and the constitution” (fair). For example the laws on self defense vary from state to state, but in general there allowed to use reasonable physical force to protect there self from imminent or immediate physical injury, you can only use that amount of force that’s necessary to stop the threat of harm. For example, if you get into an arguement with someone and the other person lunges at one or threatens to punch one, they can protect yourself by fighting back. We want less people hurt or