Reply To: Review of “Use of Force” & “Lethal Use of Force” Laws

@Redleg – I don’t know if your intention is to clarify or to advocate for “duty to retreat”. In the moment, the fight, freeze or flight instinct will take over, and people will do what their brains are instinctively hardwired to do. Having a “duty to retreat” law only serves to put a legal burden on victims of violent crime after the fact.

But yes, I didn’t capture all the ins and outs of all these laws, as they are super complex, to the point of requiring a degree in criminal law to know what to do in any given situation. I’m not a lawyer.