{"id":8260,"date":"2024-03-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8260"},"modified":"2024-02-12T17:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T22:14:38","slug":"stand-your-ground-one-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/stand-your-ground-one-more-time\/","title":{"rendered":"STAND YOUR GROUND, ONE MORE TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few states still have laws on the books requiring crime victims to attempt to retreat before using lethal force to protect themselves from deadly danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nebraska lawmakers, understandably, saw a need to change that and join the majority, with a \u201cStand Your Ground\u201d law eliminating that requirement. As usual, the mainstream <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nebraska-stand-your-ground-3eb8cafb1e16a90b6b7ff20d3af2b550\" target=\"_blank\">media misunderstood<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you read the above article, note that most if not all of the cited cases of what might be called \u201cstand your ground abuse\u201d were never really Stand Your Ground cases at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nebraska, like every other such state, ONLY required retreat&nbsp;<em>if it could be accomplished in complete safety to oneself and other innocent parties.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is hard to imagine a case where a decent person would shoot someone to death if they could have safely walked away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laws that quantify Stand Your Ground simply clarify the matter. Apparently, though, it hasn\u2019t been clarified enough for certain pundits, who appear to literally not know what they are talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few states still have laws on the books requiring crime victims to attempt to retreat before using lethal force to protect themselves from deadly danger. Nebraska lawmakers, understandably, saw a need to change that and join the majority, with a \u201cStand Your Ground\u201d law eliminating that requirement. As usual, the mainstream media misunderstood. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8261,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions\/8261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}