re: #306 Talking Point Detective

They are both subjective.

I’d say establishing an action or lack thereof (a reasonable attempt to retreat) is probably easier to establish than a standard of “reasonable” need for self-defense, which is entirely subjective.

At any rate, your basic argument rests on a distrust of law enforcement. Your solution does nothing to lessen the degree to which law enforcement are making an assessment.

…but I don’t think it does. I don’t think it’s appropriate to tell people that they have to flee or else they could be tried for defending themselves.

Again, I’ve said this before, but you’re proposing a solution without explaining why it produces better outcomes, or dealing with the easily foreseeable consequences of the solution you suggest.

In my mind it’s not a matter of “better outcomes”. I posted three stories where, without the SYG law, people ended up in prison for years for what everyone admitted was self-defense. If a person believes their lives are in danger then I think they are the ones who get to decide what the appropriate course of action should be. I don’t think it’s fair for someone to come in after the fact and say “well, we think you should have ran when you had the chance”. Unless it’s your life on the line at that moment it’s not your place to say.