As the national debate over the right to bear arms grows, our United States is seeing a tremendous rise in gun violence.
Stand Your Ground puts too much power into the hands of the untrained gun owners and makes human life less valuable and it is allowing ordinary people to think: "I can kill because I was scared; and since you scare me I have the right to kill you."
Is it just to grant immunity to criminal charges and civil action for citizens who can show they were justified in using deadly force against a threat of imminent death or severe bodily harm, regardless of whether they could have retreated?
It is estimated that there will be 33,000 annual shooting deaths by 2015. 88,000 US gun-related deaths from '03-'10. [CDC United Nations Office of Drug & Crime, FBI 2011 Crime Report].