Stand Your Ground, Castle Doctrine, Etc.

[Kleanbore]

Our 2013 Sticky on these related subjects has been superseded by the following:

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...tand-your-ground-and-related-concepts.873292/hh

While the new Sticky is not open for replies, discussion may take place in this thread,

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Thank you. I'm reading through it now.

Fairly short and sweet though it is, I may not get all the way through it until later. But the opening and the part about Duty to Retreat, especially with respect to common law origin, is fascinating.

 

[trax77]

we studied all of this in law school

 

[Kleanbore]

we studied all of this in law school

Good.

That is unusual.

I have listened to two law professors who had terribly distorted views on the subject, and another who would not express any meaningful thoughts at all.

 

[trax77]

Good.

That is unusual.

I have listened to two law professors who had terribly distorted views on the subject, and another who would not express any meaningful thoughts at all.

not sure where that was; law school covers all case law

 

[Kleanbore]

law school covers all case law

I'm sure you did not mean that to sound the way it does.

 

[DoubleMag]

''Duty to retreat'' happens as a natural event in a high percentile of actions IMHO. Let's be realistic here, we default to resolution by, easiest method. ''Yes honey, were going to T Roadhouse honey, I also think like you- go to WM*** honey, why yes! that's a nice dress honey, movies tomorrow? JUST WHAT I was thinking honey.'' oops LoL

The response term to events called ''Fight or flight'' probably more realistically reads, ''flight or fight''. Who wants the trophy pictures, hassles headaches, etc. of fighting, when an easier solution exists?

 

[Craig_AR]

we studied all of this in law school

And can we trust that every student in the class remembers all of the details? Especially the ones who graduated decades ago and have been practicing general law or business law since then.
You'd be amazed at how much I do not recall from 4 years of undergrad and 3 years of grad study in chemistry, all 40+ years ago.

 

[AlexanderA]

And can we trust that every student in the class remembers all of the details? Especially the ones who graduated decades ago and have been practicing general law or business law since then.
You'd be amazed at how much I do not recall from 4 years of undergrad and 3 years of grad study in chemistry, all 40+ years ago.

Professional education is just a necessary "entrance ticket" into the given profession. Over a 30 year career, I actually used very little of what I (supposedly) learned in school. On the other hand, the specialization on the job was much deeper than what could ever have been taught in school. I only took one course on income tax in law school, but I spent my whole career working on income tax.

we studied all of this in law school

I'll bet you didn't. You can never study "all" of anything in law school. Generally you can only scratch the surface.

Law school gives you the background to frame the questions, and the tools with which to look up the answers.