http://volokh.com/2012/04/03/the-du...to-comply-with-demands-necessity-and-liberty/
That's what I think is the money quote. The article - and the earlier one linked in the above quote - really needs to be read in its entirety so that you do not miss the nuances that must always be addressed. Volockh is not setting up a free pass argument for folks stuck in a "duty to retreat" state, and he is not suggesting that "stand your ground/make my day" has no limits. As always, the devil is in the details and I highly recommend that even if you do not consider yourself a legal scholar you go click the links and read both articles.
stay safe.
This, I think, highlights the point I noted in my earlier post on the duty to retreat: Even under a formulation such as the MPC’s, one doesn’t lose the right to lethal self-defense just because one could avoid the need for lethal self-defense with complete safety. Rather, one loses this right only when one could avoid the need for lethal self-defense with complete safety and without undue sacrifice of one’s liberty.
Even the MPC doesn’t require one to give up one’s liberty not to hand over the wallet, or one’s liberty not to beg, as a condition of lethal self-defense. The MPC duty to retreat is thus not just an application of the “use deadly force only when necessary” requirement. Rather, it embodies a judgment that requiring someone to leave a place where he has the right to be is not an undue sacrifice of one’s liberty — even though requiring someone to comply with a demand for money, or a demand that he beg for his life or renounce his apostasy, is an undue sacrifice of liberty.
That's what I think is the money quote. The article - and the earlier one linked in the above quote - really needs to be read in its entirety so that you do not miss the nuances that must always be addressed. Volockh is not setting up a free pass argument for folks stuck in a "duty to retreat" state, and he is not suggesting that "stand your ground/make my day" has no limits. As always, the devil is in the details and I highly recommend that even if you do not consider yourself a legal scholar you go click the links and read both articles.
stay safe.