‘License to Kill’ or Permission to Defend?. Today’s New York Times has a predictably negative take on new laws in Florida and 14 other states that expand the right to self-defense, eliminating the requirement to “retreat” before using lethal force in public and giving the benefit of the doubt to people who shoot home invaders. It seems Florida prosecutors don’t like the new law, and Sarah Brady avers that “it’s a license to kill”—”in a way.” [Hit and Run]
California has had laws like that all along (as have many other states), and predictably there has been no disaster as a result.
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