The Importance Of Stand Your Ground Law

The Stand Your Ground laws seem to only apply when the targets are people of color. This law makes things complicated when you are back and own a gun. A white person in America is more like to have no legal consequences for killing a black person. “In almost 17 percent of cases when a black man was killed by a non-Hispanic white civilian over the last three decades, the killing was categorized as justifiable, which is the term used when a police officer or a civilian kill someone committing a crime or in self-defense. Overall, the police classify fewer than 2 percent of homicides committed by civilians as justifiable.” (Killing of Black Men by Whites are Far More Likely to be Ruled "Justifiable", 2017). Normal people get to make the decisions

to use self-defense or not, just like police who must make the quick decision if they should shoot the person or not, while taking in evidence of the person. Thus, the killing or homicide could more than likely be ruled as self-defense even if the killer had no real threat but had the feeling to believe they were. Instead of the law making the citizens of the united state feel safe, it just put them in even more danger.