[mlo]

"I re-examined our conversation to see where it went off the rails."

Good, that should be helpful.

"I was talking about "confrontations". You started talking about a "legal obligation to retreat from a deadly threat".

No. In the my original reply, in which I quoted you, you said that retreating was required. Not a just a good idea, required.

I explained that this was not actually true in most states, and then you acted like it was a different subject.

[kiryandil]

Duty To Retreat: However, if your state has a duty to retreat law, then you must do everything in your power to leave the scene without endangering yourself or your family before resorting to deadly force.

I just posted the "Duty To Retreat law" information as a complement to your "Stand Your Ground" postings.

I'm not interested in getting dragged into the "Stand Your Ground" swamp. George Zimmerman is in the poorhouse in a strong Stand Your Ground state because he was like Flounder in Animal House.

I know that my state is a Duty To Retreat state. Those states are only 40% of the total, as you indicated above, but as I said, Zimmerman found out to his chagrin that even though he couldn't retreat through the sidewalk, that fact still didn't protect him from a malicious prosecution.

And remember, I was talking about confrontations, of which your "retreat from a deadly threat" scenario is a very small subset.