s The Right to Stand Your Ground Florida is among 21 states with a "Stand Your Ground Law," which gives people wide latitude to use deadly force rather than retreat during a fight. The self-defense law helps explain why a neighborhood watch captain has not been arrested in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager.
The shooting of the 17 year old Trayvon Martin has beyond doubt questioned Florida’s “Stand Your Ground Law”. Many have proclaimed that in Florida anyone who believes he is in danger can use deadly force, no matter how unreasonable his belief. This perception of the law is very wrong. The night that Trayvon was killed, George Zimmerman called the police saying that he sees a very suspicious young man that looks like he is up to no good, or on drugs or something. While Zimmerman was on the phone with the 911 operator he noticed that Martin had his hands in his pockets. Zimmerman was asked to stay in his car and not to follow then teen. The 911 operator said that we don’t need you to follow him. Zimmerman created his own crime. He had been instructed to stop the pursuit and did not. He decided to take the law into his own hands; Trayvon was killed.
Zimmerman was arrested after killing Trayvon that night; he was taken into for questioning but was set free a few hours later. Since he was crying self-defense does that justify that he was free 6 weeks after the murder? That isn’t fair that someone can take the law into their own hands when they are told to stay where they are. After the case became one of the most talked about situation for the whole months of March 2012, people started to question the “Stand Your Ground Law”.
Zimmerman’s side of the story was that Trayvon Martin had punched him in the nose and was bashing his head against the pavement. That’s when he felt that he needed to shoot the boy in order to save his life. Many would argue that the story isn’t true, and others would say that he did the right thing. Zimmerman also told police, that while the two were on the ground, Trayvon reached for his gun, and the two struggled over it. You could look at it both ways, one way is that Trayvon was trying to get the gun away so know on would get hurt. Others could say that Martin was trying to take it so that he could kill Zimmerman.
Should the “Stand Your Ground Law” be allowed anymore? In some cases people could just go pick on random people and cry out that is was self-defense. I believe that the law should be changed due to the fact that it isn’t fair. The Martin family will never really know what happened that night to their son. All they know is George Zimmerman was using “self-defense”.