“This isn’t about justice, it is about mob rule and appealing to the masses.”
This is exactly why our Founding Fathers gave us the right to a jury trial. Unlike prosecutors (and judges), juries don’t have to answer to the electorate. Convincing twelve jurors beyond a reasonable doubt is going to be a big hurdle.
But the whole point of the SYG law was to place the burden of proving that it was NOT self-defense on the prosecution, rather than the previous state of affairs where anyone who acted in self-defense was put through the devastating financial and mental meat-grinder of a trial - where they were first victimized by their attacker, and then by the prosecutors.