Since first-degree murder is apparently legal in Florida as long as the
victims are black, it's important to look at the overall impact of the
ALEC-funded evil Stand Your Ground laws. The upshot is: more death, more
shooting, huge racial disparities in who is killed, and no decrease in crime. Not only do they allow racist killers to get away with murder, they don't provide even the least bit of deterrent to crime. In fact, it's likely quite the opposite:
For any given case, these questions are impossible to
answer, and you can make arguments either way. But it is possible to say
something more definitive about whether these laws have led to a
greater number of total homicides. That is the question my coauthor
Cheng Cheng and I addressed in our recent study in the Journal of Human
Resources. We asked what happened to homicide rates in states that
passed these laws between 2000 and 2010, compared to other states over
the same time period. We found that homicide rates in states with a
version of the Stand Your Ground law increased by an average of 8
percent over states without it — which translates to roughly 600
additional homicides per year. These homicides are classified by police
as criminal homicides, not as justifiable homicides.
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