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<blockquote data-quote="abajaj11" data-source="post: 2244481" data-attributes="member: 3553"><p>People in Great Britain and Australia have been convicted if they used a gun or in any way severely injured anyone who was attacking them...because over zealous prosecutors said they did not fulfill their duty to retreat. </p><p><u><strong>See:</strong></u></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_%28farmer%29" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer)</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110113130440AA79Xit" target="_blank">http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110113130440AA79Xit</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1473779__ARCHIVED_THREAD____the_australia_gun_arguement.html&page=2" target="_blank">http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1473779__ARCHIVED_THREAD____the_australia_gun_arguement.html&page=2</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Duty to retreat <strong>puts the burden on you</strong>, the person defending themselves against deadly force, to try and find <strong>all possible </strong>"reasonable" methods of retreat. Try doing that kind of analysis in a life and death situation! </p><p>Here is an example I just made up to illustrate. Say you are in a store that is being held up. You are near the door and can run out becuase the perps' back is towards you. You could have run out of the store but you chose to stay. The perpetrator starts getting violent, maybe stabs a customer with his knife as he screams at the proprietor to open his safe. You pull your gun out and shoot the perp. <strong>Now you are screwed.</strong> You could have retreated, but you did not. <strong>Stand your ground is Good law that protects law abiding gun owners, people who are not prone to breaking the law, from perpetrators who break laws all the time.</strong></p><p>Without it, gunowners can use their firearms in name only, since they will almost certainly go to jail. <strong>In a society where common sense is becoming less common (example, the George Zimmerman case), explicity stand your ground laws are a MUST. </strong></p><p><img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="abajaj11, post: 2244481, member: 3553"] People in Great Britain and Australia have been convicted if they used a gun or in any way severely injured anyone who was attacking them...because over zealous prosecutors said they did not fulfill their duty to retreat. [U][B]See:[/B][/U] [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_%28farmer%29[/url] [url]http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110113130440AA79Xit[/url] [url]http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1473779__ARCHIVED_THREAD____the_australia_gun_arguement.html&page=2[/url] Duty to retreat [B]puts the burden on you[/B], the person defending themselves against deadly force, to try and find [B]all possible [/B]"reasonable" methods of retreat. Try doing that kind of analysis in a life and death situation! Here is an example I just made up to illustrate. Say you are in a store that is being held up. You are near the door and can run out becuase the perps' back is towards you. You could have run out of the store but you chose to stay. The perpetrator starts getting violent, maybe stabs a customer with his knife as he screams at the proprietor to open his safe. You pull your gun out and shoot the perp. [B]Now you are screwed.[/B] You could have retreated, but you did not. [B]Stand your ground is Good law that protects law abiding gun owners, people who are not prone to breaking the law, from perpetrators who break laws all the time.[/B] Without it, gunowners can use their firearms in name only, since they will almost certainly go to jail. [B]In a society where common sense is becoming less common (example, the George Zimmerman case), explicity stand your ground laws are a MUST. [/B] :) [/QUOTE]
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