i post this so you can realize how lucky you are not to live in california;

For the past several years, various states have been passing Stand Your Ground laws to protect their citizens’ right to self-defense. Most of these laws have one thing in common: If someone breaks into your home and attacks you, they do away with the duty to retreat before using deadly force to stop an attack.

As most gun owners know, this is simply common sense. How can an older, weaker, slower person try to run away from an attacker who is younger, stronger and faster? The result is usually disastrous.

Still, various gun-ban organizations seem to hate Stand Your Ground laws even more than concealed carry deregulation. As so-called Everytown for Gun Safety likes to put it: “Shoot First laws—also known as Stand Your Ground legislation—are deadly, reckless, and extreme. They give people a license to kill, allowing them to shoot first and ask questions later, then claim self-defense.”

A measure currently under consideration in the California legislature would impose a “duty to retreat” on Californians, stipulating: “When the person was outside of their residence and knew that using force likely to cause death or great bodily injury could have been avoided with complete safety by retreating.” It is Assembly Bill 1333, and the synopsis of the bill states, “This bill would eliminate certain circumstances under which homicide is justifiable, including, among others, in defense of a habitation or property.” ...........more.........