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Reasonable is usually defined as what others would do in the same situation. Self defense does not require you to retreat.
So lets say if someone punches you in the face a reasonable person would fear for their well being.
If someone is following you a reasonable person would not fear for their well being. Like when I drive home from work, a hbnch of people are following me, I don't punch them in the face.
The guy didn't get punched. They weren't following him. It was an argument over loud music.
It may take a few more shootings, but these youth today will learn to respect their elders. This is a result of taking the paddle out of schools and sparing the rod.
Florida’s law states “a person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.â€
How does one define reasonably? In self defense laws, you have the duty to retreat. Not in SYG. We'll see how this one turns out. This guy has been charged with 1st degree murder.
Reasonably believes is really quite simple........
What would the majority of reasonable people believe in the same circumstance?
In other words if you think a jury of your peers would agree.
You have to articulate to investigators that the assailant had the ability and the intent to do great bodily harm or kill you. It helps if you can show their use of unlawful force.
It may take a few more shootings, but these youth today will learn to respect their elders. This is a result of taking the paddle out of schools and sparing the rod.
Reasonably believes is really quite simple........
What would the majority of reasonable people believe in the same circumstance?
In other words if you think a jury of your peers would agree.
You have to articulate to investigators that the assailant had the ability and the intent to do great bodily harm or kill you. It helps if you can show their use of unlawful force.
How do you measure intent? See what I mean about it bing subjective? Some people see intent where it doesn't exist.
How do you measure intent? See what I mean about it bing subjective? Some people see intent where it doesn't exist.
You are really being deliberately obtuse.
All it means is an average person would feel/act the same way
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