Stand Your Ground laws aren’t what Robert J. Spitzer would have you believe (“Stand Your Ground Makes No Sense,” Op-Ed, May 4).
The laws provide only that if a person is legally justified to use force to prevent death or serious injury, he or she is not required to try to run away first. They do not allow a person, as Mr. Spitzer put it, to “shoot first and ask questions later.”
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