I can't believe the same talking points are still being spewed out over and over...what a dunce, but he knows his readership, they'll bite on anything.

Umm, a justifiable homicide isn't a crime, which is why it is called "justifiable."

Justifiable homicide, to such, is simply murder.

Many times we have seen it posted here that people who use a gun in self-defense should be charged with murder if the criminal dies. If the criminal happens to survive it has often been posted "they both should be in jail."

We had another one just last week or so, that thought shooting home invaders, even if they are armed, was a crime and deserved prosecution. Because, well; "Is your flat screen worth a life?"

But it's a free country and if they choose to roll the dice and trust their lives and family to the tender mercies of home invaders, it's their choice.

But ... they don't get to choose for the rest of us and that's what really pisses them off.

And the authors concluded that SYG laws resulted in an increase in homicides of white males but no increase in homicides of minorities, which I thought interesting. The authors also noted that the increase in homicide rates may in fact be due to justifiable homicides but did not reach any conclusion one way or the other on that issue:

California is a SYG state by common law. It has been SYG since before any of our grandparents were born. It is unusual in that not only can you stand your ground, you can pursue the attacker as part of your defense.
http://lawofselfdefense.com/jury_instruction/ca-505-justifiable-homicide-self-defense-or-defense-of-another/

I'm going to take a wild guess that the study assumes if there isn't a SYG statute, that it must be DTR. That isn't always the case.
http://volokh.com/2013/07/17/duty-to-retreat/

to show the uselessness of CCWs??


"Washington, DC — New research from the Violence Policy Center (VPC) confirms that contrary to what the firearms industry and gun lobby claim, private citizens rarely use guns to kill criminals or stop crimes.

The study finds that in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, there were only 211 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm reported to the SHR. Twenty states reported zero justifiable homicides in 2013. That year, there were 7,838 criminal firearm homicides.

The study also finds only a tiny fraction of the intended victims of violent crime or property crime employ guns for self-defense. Over a three-year period from 2012 to 2014, less than one percent of victims of attempted or completed violent crimes used a firearm, and only 0.2 percent of victims of attempted or completed property crimes used a firearm."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/126210633

http://www.vpc.org/press/self-defense-gun-use-is-rare-new-vpc-study-confirms/


While in 2012, a bump in rate of 1 extra homicide in a million found justifiable is the cause for all kinds of alarms.

Whenever I want info on Missouri I always go by what the Massachusetts newspapers have to report.



Is that a rifle in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

It is rifle-ish, right?

They didn't call it an "assault weapon."