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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[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Unsure. Others have talked about it dealing with perceived intent. I think it might.

The more interesting application for the SYG laws, I think, is possibly as a go-around that would decriminalize various abortion procedures.