Another thought about Stand Your Ground legislation

[xiphias]

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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What if they were done by Hollywood Old West rules: you only REALLY win if the other guy twitches and his gun clears his holster before you kill him? That's how Marshall Matt Dillon judged things in GUNSMOKE -- if the other guy didn't have his gun out, it was murder, and if he did, it was totally cool.

. . . I honestly think that a lot of the law enforcement officers in SYG states would be fine with taking Matt Dillon as a law enforcement model. I honestly think that, in some cases, that might even be an improvement . . .