[philman_36]

I would appreciate any comments you might have based upon the Abstract and the "difference-in-differences design research" style utilized.

Page two has something interesting as well...

First we investigate whether the laws increase justifiable homicide by private citizens. Importantly, justifiable homicide is defined as “the killing of a felon, during commission of a felony, by private citizen”.

Yeah, some real twists and turns in this one.

[Teacher317]

some real twists and turns in this one.

Seems to me like the study tried to be rational, yet the typical idiotic and agenda-driven journalism major typed up a headline to create a stir, solely to help circulation. As usual.

[detective]

These are economics professors. They have no experience in law enforcement, criminology or solving real world problems. All they did was compare FBI crime statistics for states with and without stand your ground laws over a period of time. They did no analysis of any other factors. The 500 to 700 number is just extrapolation. It is not an actual count of anything.

They specifically said that they defined justifiable homicide as only killing a felon during commission of a felony. It did not include self-defense, etc.

This “study” does not prove anything other than a few correlations. Their conclusions are probably not valid.

[TurboZamboni]

???? that sounds like a bizarre interpretation of justifiable homicide.

like a definition of their own making.