A Deadly Way of Live: Georgia’s Stand Your Ground Law
In 2006 the state of Georgia introduced its version of the Stand Your Ground Law. What is the Georgia’s Stand Your Ground Law (SYG)? In general, Georgia's law says a person is justified in threatening or using force if they believe it is necessary to protect themselves or another person, in other-word the right to kill another. Georgia is the second state of twenty-two states with the stand your ground law. In Georgia this law gives individuals the right to use deadly force to defend themselves without any requirement to evade or retreat from a dangerous situation.
The SYG law in Georgia has changes the purpose and way many feel about self-defense. This has become a problem for many cases and some instances it is considered to be systemically injustice. The SYG law is like having the feeling that you are been threatened, to allow you to be justifiable in your choice of self-defense. This cause has an effect on the rise of homicides rates and becoming more increasingly …show more content…
There are strong feelings of many in regards to race, that an increase of disproportionately numbers of murder on black citizens is trigger by the law. Whites are significantly more successful in claiming self-defense when their attacker is black than blacks are when fighting back against an attacker who is white, according to many studies. To some, others have find that it suggest that the SYG law have allowed perceptions of the black community, whether accurate or not, to become a legal justification for using deadly force. Recent studies on the SYG laws suggest that the greatest determining factor in whether your SYG claim will hold up is the race of the victim and that homicides were more justifiable in 49 percent of cases in which a white man shot a black man compared to just 8 percent of cases in which the roles were
In 2006 the state of Georgia introduced its version of the Stand Your Ground Law. What is the Georgia’s Stand Your Ground Law (SYG)? In general, Georgia's law says a person is justified in threatening or using force if they believe it is necessary to protect themselves or another person, in other-word the right to kill another. Georgia is the second state of twenty-two states with the stand your ground law. In Georgia this law gives individuals the right to use deadly force to defend themselves without any requirement to evade or retreat from a dangerous situation.
The SYG law in Georgia has changes the purpose and way many feel about self-defense. This has become a problem for many cases and some instances it is considered to be systemically injustice. The SYG law is like having the feeling that you are been threatened, to allow you to be justifiable in your choice of self-defense. This cause has an effect on the rise of homicides rates and becoming more increasingly …show more content…
There are strong feelings of many in regards to race, that an increase of disproportionately numbers of murder on black citizens is trigger by the law. Whites are significantly more successful in claiming self-defense when their attacker is black than blacks are when fighting back against an attacker who is white, according to many studies. To some, others have find that it suggest that the SYG law have allowed perceptions of the black community, whether accurate or not, to become a legal justification for using deadly force. Recent studies on the SYG laws suggest that the greatest determining factor in whether your SYG claim will hold up is the race of the victim and that homicides were more justifiable in 49 percent of cases in which a white man shot a black man compared to just 8 percent of cases in which the roles were