Stand Your Ground is a Fundament Right to Self Defense

Do you have a right to defend yourself?  If someone is trying to commit a crime against you or your family, or you are observing a crime in action, do you have a right to do something about it?  Or should you do as the White House wants you to, and run away? 

Of course you have a basic right to protect yourself, your family, your property, and your community.  Our founding documents provide us the guarantee to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  If we are not allowed to defend ourselves, we are not allowed to exercise those basic guarantees.  We become the cowards that Attorney General Holder called us a few years ago.  The attacks on stand your ground are about restricting your basic rights and making is required to wait on the State, usually in the form of the federal government, to protect us.  We don't need the federal government to protect us, for more than 200 years we've been able to do a fine job of that all on our own.  We don't need a police state to "protect" us. 

Stand your ground laws aren't about vigilantism, they aren't about just killing people because they look sketchy, they aren't about shooting people completely unprovoked.  They are about standing up to criminals, they are about protecting yourself.  If you are attacked in any place where you have a right to be, you have no duty to retreat and you have the right to stand your ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if you reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to yourself or another person.  This is a basic right of American citizens.

To say we should retreat is to give the upper hand to the criminal or the attacker.  We train them that we will not stand up to them, which means they can do what they want to us and we won't stop them.  This is exactly the same mentality which leads to anti-gun laws in our major cities, and by the number of gun crimes in those cities, we can see why that doesn't work.

We must remember that standing your ground is a basic right, and question the motives of anyone who wants to limit or take away those rights.