[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.

[mlo]

"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."

So what? What does that have to do with whether retreat is required? Zimmerman wasn't prosecuted because he failed to retreat.

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

No, you brought up the duty to retreat. You said it was required. I simply pointed out that it wasn't in most states. I don't know why you've confused that with all this other commentary. It could have been left at that.