Stunning Report: "Stand Your Ground" Laws Responsible for 500-700 Homicides Per year

WOAI Radio ^ | 06/11/2012 | Jim Forsyth

[Afisra]

Research conducted at Texas A&M University concludes that far from reducing crime rates, so called 'Stand your Ground' laws are actually responsible for a drastic increase in the number of homicides nationwide each year.

[philman_36]

Yes, I believe the term they are deliberately ignoring is "Justifiable Homicide".

The article missed it, not the report.
See reply 33 and 56 (snippet of pg 2 of the report)

[Jack of all Trades]

But murder rates in the U.S. are decreasing. Perhaps the stunning increase is in the number of murderers thinking they have a new "get out of jail free" card.

[FreedomPoster]

This is typical of Leftying lying by misuse of language. Do not think that it is not intentional.

[moovova]

“... showed a sharp increase in justifiable homicide in the years immediately after they approved Stand Your Ground laws.”

...ah...the learning curve the perps go thru before realizing THEY have now (justifiably) become the target.

[FreedomPoster]

They must have caught some crap for their headline; it now reads “Homicides”, not “Murders”.

[MileHi]

Paging John Lott

[FreedomPoster]

LOL! You said what I was going to say, and you said it better than I would have!

Nicely done.

[DiogenesLamp]

That’s a feature, not a bug. The people getting killed, NEED to get killed.

[FlingWingFlyer]

In the New America, research and university should never be used in the same sentence. It’s politics. Nothing but politics.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Law responsible for 500-700 peoples lives saved and 500-700 murderers dead.

[BuffaloJack]

500 to 700 dead criminals per year.
So, “Stand Your Ground” works!
That’s 500 to 700 less repeat offenders per year.

[SoFloFreeper]

I would say SYG laws PREVENT up to 700 murders per year. So bully for them.

[Dead Corpse]

Yeah I had an Uncle and a Cousin that were substance abusers. I agree with your assement.

[CodeToad]

Liberal propaganda is sooooo easy to spot. They think they are being clever, yet, their thoughts are that of small children.

[tacticalogic]

The researchers also say that strengthening concealed carry and Castle Doctrine laws also have no 'meaningful deterrence' against crimes like burglary and robbery, something they conceded surprised them.

They must have zombie criminals where these researchers are. Around here, when a potential victim kills the perp, it provides very "meaninful deterrence" to all the subsequent crimes the perp would have committed.

[Ignatz]

“...they must first take affirmative steps to defuse the situation”

IMHO, a perp contracting a sudden case of terminal high-velocity lead poisoning will most affirmatively “defuse” the situation.

I approve.

[TYVets]

The "Report" was done by Mark Hoekstra & Cheng Cheng. Both are from the Department of Economics.

When did the Economics Department become part of The Law School?

Did they receive a healthy grant from The Brady Foundation, The Joyce Foundation or other Anti-Gun groups to come up with this slanted report?

I have to wonder what the Money Trail looks looks like for this "report".

[Teacher317]

Murder has a specific definition, it means the intentional killing of an innocent person.
The left would LOVE for it to be illegal to defend yourself.

They always have. Democrats passed Jim Crow laws explicitly to prevent blacks from defending themselves from lynch mobs.

(Also, there is no shortage of nations that passed gun control laws just a few years before mass killings began.)

[TYVets]

Looking at the graph murder rates have FALLEN since 1980.

Could there be a tie in with the number of states that have passed Concealed Carry between 1980 and 2012?

[heylady]

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