According to Firearm Chronicles
Stand Your Ground laws exist for one primary purpose. They make it so people won’t be prosecuted for not running away from an attack. It’s something that shouldn’t be needed, but people can and have been prosecuted by people who weren’t there in the moment but seem to believe that fleeing was not only possible but preferable.
As a result, some people are downright terrified to defend any human life other than their own, and even then they’re concerned.
Laws that not just eliminate that duty but make it clear you have a right to hold your ground from an attacker protect law-abiding citizens.
Now, Ohio is considering such a bill and, surprise surprise, it has the typically stupid criticisms.
Legalized lynching. Citizens’ license to kill. Codification of black men’s deaths.
These were just a few of the characterizations people offered to the Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee of a “stand your ground” proposal that lawmakers reviewed Tuesday
Starting in the afternoon and continuing well into the evening, a steady stream of citizens implored lawmakers to nix the proposal. They said the bill is overly generous to people who shoot someone, purportedly in self-defense, and will establish further legal protections of racist killings.
Stand your ground laws are associated with two high-profile deaths of black men by white killers. Jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin discussed the law in making their decision. Also, prosecutors initially declined to charge two men in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man, citing the legal concept.