One criticism of Indiana's new self-defense law, eliminating the need to retreat before using deadly force, is that it will lead too many people to shoot first and worry about it later. If most of the people with guns were as quick to take the law into their own hands as these people, there might be a problem:
Two people who helped place a man under citizen's arrest when he strayed onto the wrong property found themselves in jail.
Michigan City police received a call Sunday night from a man who said he had been detained by four people while he was trying to find a friend's house. The man told police he was grabbed by two men and told to quit resisting, as he was under arrest. The man said he complied because he thought they were police officers.
Two women then came out of a nearby house and handcuffed the man, although he tried to explain he was just visiting a friend and had taken the wrong staircase, he told police.The group took the handcuffed man to his friend's house, and released him when the friend vouched for him.
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what does failure to retreat have to do with this case of false inprisonment?
they didn't shoot him, he was not violently threatening any of the people involved, and it sounds as if they are sick and tired of folks who walk their hallways that are up to 'mischief'.
several states have made this change, and the results have, so far, been positive.
crime is down. murders by average citizens has not sprung up. people are not "squaring of in the middle of the street to shoot it out".
in other words, your negative opinion is not upheld by history, or facts.