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This is hell.

Live from the United States, where the law is far too often the crime.

This is hell.

The foundations of law in the United States come from English Common Law,

as right-wing constitutional constructivists always point out using the law as a cudgel to silence any dissent from their reactionary legal opinions.

But there's a problem with common law when it comes to those conservatives and liberals

as well who support stand your ground laws, which give anyone who is in fear for their safety,

the right to shoot, potentially kill because they are afraid. English common law did not support

such deadly violence, although conservatives don't like

to point that out.

In fact, it enforced a duty to retreat.

That is for anyone in fear of violence to not provoke violence, but to do whatever is necessary

to avoid the possibility someone might get hurt or killed.

In the past decade plus, however, that has changed here in the gun-toting U.S.

We now have the right to defend ourselves of deadly force.

However, like all rights in the United States of America, that right to defend yourself is enforced unequally along race, class, and gender lines.

Worse yet, stand your ground laws do not make the U.S. any more safe.

In fact, it does the opposite. Now there's talk of stand your ground going national

through a federal law. Proponents want us all armed in taking law into our own hands as judge,

jury, and yes, executioner if necessary. With the pernicious spread of stand-your-ground laws throughout our society and culture,

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