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Gun Control & RKBA

yagotme

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5. How's this?

Reply to tortoise1956 (Original post)

Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:50 PM

Jan 2017

Pre-Stand Your Ground: Criminal breaks in, you HAVE to get away, get shot in back by criminal (Classification: MURDER).

Post-SYG: Criminal breaks in, you shoot him before he shoots you (Classification: HOMICIDE).

May account for small percentage of "difference".

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