Arkansas Legislature To Take Another Swing At “Stand Your Ground”

The state of Arkansas is pretty strong on gun rights in very many ways. However, no state seems to get it perfect. In Arkansas, one of their flaws isn’t really a gun issue, but a self-defense issue.

You see, Arkansas has a “Duty to Retreat” law. In other words, if you’re faced with a life-threatening situation, you’re legally required to look for escape rather than being allowed to just defend yourself. That’s right, you have to waste precious seconds in the face of an attack to determine if you can get away from an attacker before you can actually defend yourself.

And if you think there isn’t and a prosecutor who wasn’t there at the time thinks there was, well…you’re in for a bad time.