I have to disagree with Mother Jones’ analysis. There’s no perfect solution but the duty to retreat laws were so bad that you could wake up to find someone in your houses and be charged with murder if you defended yourself. Even if you won, the prosecution was ruinous.

This isn’t, to me, a “stand your ground” issue. Stand your ground does not mean you can wander the streets gunning down anyone who looks suspicious, especially if, as seems the case, he was warned off and shot the guy after he was down. This seems to be more like a case where the cops are making excuses to not charge the guy.

And I’d like to see more attention paid when cops do stuff like this. The Jordan Miles case is in the courts right now, but no one seems to care.