"Stand Your Ground" bill wending its way thru MA legislature

[SamG]

3. Thanks for this link! What's dangerous about

laws such as these is dangerous in Massachusetts as in any other state.

Simply because Massachusetts may have much more restrictive gun licensing laws does NOT mean that each and every person with a gun license has the proper amount of training, nor the knowledge and good sense and self-restraint to always exercise that proper judgement at all times.

This is what is wrong with any stand your ground legislation. It places too high a burden upon the state to disprove an claim of self-defense. Confrontations with a firearm which result in a death are most often events without witnesses, and events that transpire within a few seconds. This places the state at considerable disadvantage in charging a certain group of murderers who do their un-witnessed deed and later get to claim a free pass around jail time, simply because of a law like this.

I'm not well versed in how many or what percentage of domestic murders take place with a gun in Massachusetts. I'm sure at least some or a few of those take place with a murderer being a licensed gun owner. It is chilling to think a law would give them a free pass.