Missouri becomes first state to adopt ‘Stand Your Ground’ law since Trayvon Martin was killed
Josh Israel
215
Stop the lies. No stand-your-ground law allows us to shoot someone merely because we “feel threatened, ” as the article has it. Justification for the use of defensive deadly force still requires a reasonable belief in the necessity of doing so to avoid death, serious bodily injury or to defend against a forcible felony.
That is million miles from just “feeling threatened.” What is required is both such an actual subjective belief, and that such belief be one which would have been held by a reasonable person under the circumstances as they were known to the actor.