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vermonter wrote:
I don't see why you can't do a state map for "stand your ground" states. That isNOT giving legal advice, just stating the facts about the situation in that state. Some states have statutory stand your ground, some have case law, some are unclear, and some have retreat required. I think that is more important than where you can and cannot carry. What good is carrying if you cannot defend yourself. The following links are not worried about "legal advice", why not make a map?
The truth of the matter is that each state would need a different color. There's a pretty decent range of permissiveness between "you better have a damn good reason to shoot at all to defend yourself" and "you can shoot anything that moves... and a few things that don't move".
On a more subjective note, it shouldn't be all that necessary to know how permissive self-defense laws are in a location in the United States. If you do everything you can do in order to de-escalate a situation, if you attempt to retreat if possible, and if you life is truly put in grave danger, there are very few jurisdictions that will hold you criminally liable for this.
Not to mention that your self-defense response should be the same regardless of laws in the area you find yourself. Why, ethically, would it be justifiable to use deadly force in one situation, but
not justifiable to use it in the exact same situation, but where you might face legal problems? Or the information on the self-defense laws instead used to decide whether or not one
gets to shoot a "bad" person? To me, self-defense is self-defense, and if you have to question whether a shoot is good or not, chances are that you shouldn't be making that shoot.
But anyhow, going back to the topic at hand, it would just be very difficult to properly classify states' self-defense laws because they're so varied. It would be like making a map rating how "pro-gun" or "anti-gun" the various states are.