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Originally Posted by DrPhil
I think DGTess does not want the law to be denigrated which is highly correlated with how DGTess feels about gun control and the failures of law enforcement.
There is room for both faults in the law and in people's actions. However, I simply do not care about Ms. Alexander's story because the common denominator in some of the more recent news stories is the Stand Your Ground law. That perhaps means that it has gone way beyond this notion of self-defense and is confusing some people as to what constitutes lawful and unlawful behavior in certain contexts. That implies a potential error in the law itself and not just in human application. Afterall, laws are formal social control mechanisms that serve to direct and/or respond to human behavior.
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Well, no; laws are mechanisms by which we punish people who go beyond societal norms. They prevent nothing.
Without getting in to your irrational hatred of my gun-control opinions, look at the meaning of a stand-your-ground law. It states that a person need not turn tail and run from attacks; that s/he may defend life and safety as necessary. Eliminating the law takes away personal responsibility for one's safety and implies the bigger, badder party will always win. I don't want to live in that world.
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