Manx

I'm not going to accept two examples and a website called Keep And Bear Arms as evidence that there is a significant amount of people being convicted of a crime for defending themselves.

ziadel - Your example consists of a man who was involved in an argument. I don't have all the facts of the case and I expect you do not either - but it is not at all a stretch of the imagination to believe that the DA felt the man was likely an agressor in the entire event. He is fortunate to have been aquitted, but I don't see any reason to presume he never should have been tried. Nor do I see how this Florida legislation would have altered the outcome of that event or the potentiallity of trial.

edit: Your further examples are nothing more than the exceptions which prove the rule. There are also entirely innocent people convicted of crimes - that is certainly not a valid reason to eliminate law. The vast majority of cases involve actual criminals and not innocent people. I would expect the same principle to hold in cases involving defense. The vast majority of cases involving people who were actually defending themselves do not go to trial/get dismissed/return an acquittal - and the vast majority of cases involving people who were actually an aggressor or instigator while claiming to simply be defending themselves, result in a conviction.