WEEK 2 EOC: Stand Your Ground

The first legislature was passed in 2005 in Florida, granting a person the use of deadly force under the presumed fear of death or great bodily harm. In a nutshell it’s a shoot first ask questions later if someone breaks into your home and you feel threatened.   There aren’t very many situations in which somebody is a loud to invade your privacy of home protection. Only people such as an owner of the house or vehicle you have or lease; the other being an officer of the law.

One piece of the legislature includes “A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believe it is necessary to do o to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a  felony(http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String&URL=0700-0799/0776/Sections/0776.013.html).

What this means is if somebody attacks you, you have the right if you feel you are going to be caused great bodily harm to not only hurt the other person, but end their life if you feel it is the right choice to fulfill. “Stand your ground self-defense law enacts sweeping changes to avert more tragedies like the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.”(http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/19/us-usa-florida-shooting-lawmakers-idUSBRE96I05020130719). Although a lot of this can be very complex it will never change the fact that self-defense is just in our DNA. A lot of other people feel the same way. “The attorney general fails to understand that self-defense is not a concept, it’s a fundamental human right.” (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/nra-eric-holder-94335.html?hp=l4 )