{"id":36998,"date":"2015-05-13T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=36998"},"modified":"2015-05-13T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:32:12","slug":"chris-cox-defends-stand-your-ground-laws-in-ny-times-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/chris-cox-defends-stand-your-ground-laws-in-ny-times-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Cox Defends \u2018Stand Your Ground Laws\u2019 in NY Times Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by saying the best defense of \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 laws, what anti-gunners call \u201cShoot-First\u201d or \u201cKill at Will\u201d laws comes courtesy of self-defense expert and firearms instructor Massad Ayoob.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already watched his speech on SYG laws, the video is posted above. He breaks down exactly why the law that allows one to use force, including deadly force, when one reasonably fears for his or her life in the public square is not only a sensible doctrine backed by historical precedent but also a wise policy measure in that it saves municipal governments money, as it allows them to forgo unnecessary legal proceedings, and protects perpetrators of justifiable homicides from civil prosecution, which can effectively bankrupt an innocent gun owner.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now to the point at hand which is that recently the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/04\/opinion\/stand-your-ground-makes-no-sense.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-defends-stand-your-ground-laws-in-ny-times-op-ed\" title=\"Chris Cox Defends \u2018Stand Your Ground Laws\u2019 in NY Times Op-Ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ran an editorial<\/a> in which Robert J. Spitzer, a political scientist at SUNY Cortland and the author, most recently, of \u201cGuns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights,\u201d argued for the repeal of SYG laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe marriage of expanded Stand Your Ground laws with escalating civilian gun toting increases unnecessary violent confrontations and deaths,\u201d wrote Spitzer in the NY Times piece. \u201cWe need policies that defuse confrontations in public places, especially since more than 11 million Americans now have licenses to carry concealed firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police and prosecutors need to be able to conduct full, unencumbered investigations,\u201d Spitzer continued. \u201cAnd gun owners need to admit what most of them already know: that firearms\u2019 lethality and ease of use make fatal miscalculation more likely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association\u2019s Institute for Legislative Action, responded to Spitzer\u2019s article and adequately defended SYG laws. Here is what Mr. Cox had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/13\/opinion\/stand-your-ground-laws.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-defends-stand-your-ground-laws-in-ny-times-op-ed\" title=\"Chris Cox Defends \u2018Stand Your Ground Laws\u2019 in NY Times Op-Ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Stand Your Ground laws aren\u2019t what Robert J. Spitzer would have you believe (\u201cStand Your Ground Makes No Sense,\u201d Op-Ed, May 4).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The laws provide only that if a person is legally justified to use force to prevent death or serious injury, he or she is not required to try to run away first. They do not allow a person, as Mr. Spitzer put it, to \u201cshoot first and ask questions later.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Most states now have some form of Stand Your Ground laws, and the nation\u2019s murder rate is now at or near an all-time low. Gun control supporters oppose Stand Your Ground laws for the same reason they oppose right-to-carry laws. Both validate the type of firearm used most often for self-defense, and which, for that reason, anti-gun activist groups have tried for years to get banned: handguns.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Polls show that Americans of most demographic groups increasingly support having guns for protection, and most gun owners have them for that reason. Support for banning handguns is at an all-time low.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gun control supporters like Mr. Spitzer are running out of arguments to lose.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHRIS COX<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fairfax, Va.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty good defense of the law. I&#8217;d only add that if it&#8217;s pared down even further to a basic yes or no type of Q&amp;A, the law makes even more sense: If a criminal is trying to kill you, regardless of whether it is at home, in your car or in a public area, do you have the right to use force to to stop that bad guy? Yes. Should you face civil prosecution for killing a bad guy? No. Should you face criminal prosecution for killing a bad guy? No. If you agree with those answers then you support SYG.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, what are your thoughts on SYG?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRA-ILA defends controversial &#8216;Stand Your Ground Laws&#8221; in a New York Times Op-Ed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":36999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,216,240],"tags":[132,291,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-dgu","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chris Cox Defends \u2018Stand Your Ground Laws\u2019 in NY Times Op-Ed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NRA-ILA defends controversial &#039;Stand Your Ground Laws&quot; in a New York Times Op-Ed.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/chris-cox-defends-stand-your-ground-laws-in-ny-times-op-ed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chris Cox Defends \u2018Stand Your Ground Laws\u2019 in NY Times Op-Ed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NRA-ILA defends controversial &#039;Stand Your Ground Laws&quot; in a New York Times Op-Ed.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/chris-cox-defends-stand-your-ground-laws-in-ny-times-op-ed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-13T18:34:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-18T17:32:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/142610921.jpg.CROP_.rectangle3-large.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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