Don't Erase the Law, but Make it Better

    We have opportunity, if we want, to change a law for the better. Not to erase it, but to improve it. 

    No person should be given the right to say whether their killing another person is justified. We can have laws that say a person is justified in protecting themselves. We can have laws saying a person is justified in defending themselves. 

   Those are good things, defending yourself and protecting your family. We do not want to change them. But, leave it at that. Let the law say you can use a weapon to defend yourself and your family.

  Current law goes further. It says if you believe you are endangered, you can use lethal force. Thus, all the killing party needs to do is say they felt threatened. Courts cannot question them, because the law leaves it in their hands to decide if they were threatened. 

  We should take that power out of the hands of the person doing the killing, and leave it in the hands of the court.