Originally Posted by signupdamnit

I live in Florida and I think that's fucked up. Firstly a distinction should be made where it's clearly on your property versus elsewhere such as in public. On your property you should have no duty to retreat. But in public you should have to try to reasonably minimize the situation such as by trying to walk away or get help from others where reasonable.

Then a distinction needs to be made between willingly putting yourself in the situation versus having it thrust upon you. If you start a fight or confrontation or are basically acting as if you were a law enforcement officer you should not have the same protection as someone who shoots an armed robber during a home invasion.

If this continues on we are going to see all sorts of bar fights devolve into this where the loser decides to blow the other guy away and then claim self defense and "stand your ground".