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Interesting research from a reasonably neutral source (JAMA not the WP)
stand-your-ground-research-homicides
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"not the only factor at play" - even though that seems to be what they're pushing.
And using Trayvon Martin as the example in the article? The 17 year old who attacked someone? But you gotta love how the author puts it..."Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who followed and shot Martin..." Like Zimmerman was stalking him. I'm surprised the author didn't call Zimmerman a white supremacist, like they kept doing in the news.
Dumb.
And using Trayvon Martin as the example in the article? The 17 year old who attacked someone? But you gotta love how the author puts it..."Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who followed and shot Martin..." Like Zimmerman was stalking him. I'm surprised the author didn't call Zimmerman a white supremacist, like they kept doing in the news.
Dumb.
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SPC Kevin Ford
Sgt (Join to see) The article specifically says that the Martin case didn't hinge on stand your ground, only that it brought it to the national spotlight (which it did). The Zimmerman/Martin case didn't turn out to be a stand your ground case as you say, but at the start a lot of people were claiming it was and that is what originally brought that kind of law to the forefront of public attention.
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PO2 Marco Monsalve
I agree that the Wash Post writer does put a spin on this that I don't like. I am going to try to get the actual JAMA research paper. Reading between the lines I don't think they put as much of an anti spin as the writer did. JAMA's peer review is pretty stringent and they don't typically play political games.
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SPC Kevin Ford - The author brought up the Zimmerman case only because he wanted to put a racial angle on his article. There would be no other reason to do so. "Look, more blacks are being killed in stand your ground states." Well, that may be so. But why is that? Maybe because people are fighting back so more perpetrators are being killed by their intended victims?
Irregardless of race, is that a bad thing?
Irregardless of race, is that a bad thing?
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Why is stand your ground even controversial? Should we go full pajama clad soy boy and play 'possum?
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I would have to look at the numbers and all the assumptions the evaluation did to say yes or no. These days people don't provide you their reasoning. That they didn't mention other types of crime that could be affected by stand your ground, and give up/down percentages on them leads me to believe this author is just trying to make political points.
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PO2 Marco Monsalve
Agree with your analysis. I'm not sure the WP writer accurately depicts the actual JAMA study.
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