Originally Posted By: sinij
More Killings Called Self-Defense

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At a time when the overall U.S. homicide rate is declining, more civilians are killing each other and claiming self-defense.


Number of justifiable homicides 2010 = 326 (your article)
Number of murders 2010 14,748 (http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm)

Is it just me that's not seeing a rash of justifiable homicides sweeping the nation? Lots of people are in the wrong place at the wrong time, I would argue that most of them are in the second category of statistics rather than the first.

It's better to be judges by 12 than carried by 6, as the saying goes.

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