Another thought about Stand Your Ground legislation

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Does SYG effectively decriminalize dueling?  With no Duty to Retreat, you've got no duty to avoid deadly conflicts.  Therefore, you can deliberately seek out deadly conflicts, so long as your opponent is reasonably armed.  Therefore, arranged duels.  If the loser presented a reasonable threat, the survivor can claim self-defense, and, as SYG largely removes the police's ability to investigate, who's to say otherwise?

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So basically, the duel has to be set up to trick the other guy into firing first (and missing)?

...I'd think the premeditation would take it out of SYG-territory, myself. If you intend to have a duel, and ostensibly your intent beforehand is to kill the other person (i.e. presuming you are not suicidal), then any attempt to argue self-defense would be pretty weak.

But at least it'll make some lawyers very rich.