Via The Truth About Guns by Mark Chesnut
For the past several years, various states have been passing Stand Your Ground laws to protect their citizens’ right to self-defense. Most of these laws have one thing in common: If someone breaks into your home and attacks you, they do away with the duty to retreat before using deadly force to stop an attack.
As most gun owners know, this is simply common sense. How can an older, weaker, slower person try to run away from an attacker who is younger, stronger and faster? The result is usually disastrous.
Still, various gun-ban organizations seem to hate Stand Your Ground laws even more than concealed carry deregulation. As so-called Everytown for Gun Safety likes to put it: “Shoot First laws—also known as Stand Your Ground legislation—are deadly, reckless, and extreme. They give people a license to kill, allowing them to shoot first and ask questions later, then claim self-defense.”
A measure currently under consideration in the California legislature would impose a “duty to retreat” on Californians, stipulating: “When the person was outside of their residence and knew that using force likely to cause death or great bodily injury could have been avoided with complete safety by retreating.” It is Assembly Bill 1333, and the synopsis of the bill states, “This bill would eliminate certain circumstances under which homicide is justifiable, including, among others, in defense of a habitation or property.”
And, of course, Everytown is ecstatic over the possibility of protecting violent criminals while at the same time endangering lawful gun owners.
“This legislation builds on California’s gun safety legacy and lays the blueprint for the rest of the nation,” Monisha Henley, Everytown senior vice president for government affairs, said in a news release praising the measure. “White supremacists and other extremists have hidden behind self-defense laws to fire a gun and turn any conflict into a death sentence. Now, lawmakers have an opportunity to help stop that and save lives.”
Despite the decidedly anti-gun nature of California’s state government, there are plenty of people working to put an end to the legislation—including some high-profile law enforcement officials. In fact, Tehama County Sheriff Dave Kain told Action News Now that the proposal is “ridiculous.”
“We are swinging so far outside the realm of what is reasonable by telling people now that under certain circumstances, they can’t protect themselves in their own home against a criminal element is probably one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of,” Sheriff Kain told the news outlet.
Kain said current laws are sufficient, and the DA’s office already has a procedure for determining whether or not a person involved in an alleged self-defense episode has committed a justified homicide. He also said that he and California’s 57 other county sheriffs plan to discuss the matter at their next meeting.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is also speaking out strongly against the measure.
“Sacramento Democrats have spent the last 15 years tying the hands of law enforcement and coddling criminals, using and abusing ordinary Californians in their attempt to make criminals the real victims,” Bianco told the California Globe. “Now, they’re actively trying to tie the hands of our residents, who have had to defend themselves against re-released career criminals far too often.”
The bill is scheduled to be considered in committee on March 24.
Read in its entirety at thetruthaboutguns.com.
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Monisha Hensley has her head in the sand all the way up to her butt
If someone is trying to break into, or succeeds in breaking into my house, the last thing I’m thinking is retreat, so it takes a minute or 2 longer to be assaulted or killed. I’m moving forward with clear intent to stop the person by whatever means necessary. The California Legislators better rethink their priorities. Not everyone has police protection, or security details around them. 357 is much faster than 911 (or any other caliber for that matter). This also goes toward my neighbors homes. We’re in 2 duplexes on the same property, and I’ll protect them like I would myself, PERIOD.
Well then Congress needs to pass a law for all American Citizens the right to stand your ground, to protect you, your family, your property, against illegal criminal activity of anyone trying to to break in destroying, stealing physical attacks, so these corrupt politicians can’t take any American Citizens Rights to defend themselves, family, property, same with all our Rights, Religion, Speech, Guns,
This is one more of the gun graggers of my state of California These communist sons of bitches want us to have to give up what we have I was hoping that they would deport all of the morons here in California Where are you supposed to retreat to That is almost as laughable as Bugout bags Where are you going to Bugout to The mountains that have 7/11 Wings Home Town Buffet There are no bugout places to go to survive and there are no places to retreat to Oh I guess you go in the bathroom and let them shoot you through the door I think they might have to take me to jail because I’m a disabled Marine veteran and I can’t run See how idiotic this shit is This fucking stupid is about the best I can give it These same people who have unleashed murders back on the street with there Soros backed DA’s If you go to San Francisco make sure you can cover your nose You know how someone asks what is that it smells like shit Well in this case it is shit They moved all of those people out when Biden and Newsom met XI Ping for what kind of talk who knows but now it is back to doing your business on the street These assholes are talking about running and they can’t even get the fucking cities to run right but the liberal bastards what everyone to think they are doing something to make our citizens safer No here it is guilty until proven innocent if you are a law abiding citizen and you have to shoot and intruder then you are going to jail No that is not true if you are a democrat probably not
Perhaps a mental evaluation AND a basic civics test which would include basic comprehension/understanding of the Constitution should be required to run for any political office.
If they pass it in kalifornia, then look out! It will spread like an S T D!
I believe in self-defense. Lie-berals believe that you should ‘turn the other cheek’, NO MATTER WHAT ! They are always for the bad guys.
I’ll retreat when I run out of ammo!
Like they said – seniors or disabled, or young kids or anyone that cannot “retreat” is their target and they dont care so why should we – Shoot and then retreat or ask questions – If not you may not be able to retreat or ask
any questions later! You’ll be dead!