Stand Your Ground Essay

Home should be where you feel the safest and where you have freedom as well as privacy. And I feel that if you are facing an attack you should be able to retreat into your home. I don’t feel this is an easy question to answer or decide because in a situation like this you cannot be absolute. Byron Smith was being robbed, but he the court convicted of him of murder because he set the entire thing up and planned on killing whoever came in his home.
I think they should be contentious. When people are granted that kind of power over their property such as outside their vehicle, it can often be a recipe for a disaster as people don’t follow limitations or could go to extremes. For instance, look at Byron did. Was that reasonable? And what constitutes reasonable? Is there a list of behavior and the corresponding actions that match them? Overall it’s a pretty sticky subject and should be contentious. You don’t want to give one group more than rights than the other one and the assessment of reasonable makes quite a difference.
Smith clearly killed those kids and did so under the protection of the Minnesota Stand Your Ground laws. Although what the kids were doing was not right and they were breaking and entering, Smith knew they were teenagers, if he had not felt safe in his home. Did he really think
they would have weapons and try to kill him? He also set the entire scenario up and waited for them to come. He was properly convicted.
I don’t think Stand Your Ground laws essentially make me feel safer in my own home. That is something that comes from me taking care and precautions to feel that way. For instance, my building is a security building. You would really have a tough time getting in here and that’s because I take the necessary measures so that I feel protected. Not just that, I would never want to have to be in a situation where I would ever have to retaliate like that be it my home or not. Ultimately, I would have to say Stand Your Ground laws do not make me feel safer.