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Originally Posted by Manx
I would expect every defensive shooting to go before a Grand Jury - and I see nothing in this legislation that would change that. If you believe you should be allowed to simply walk away without significant questioning from a shooting you have committed simply because you believe you were acting in self-defense, I have to say that is quite unrealistic.
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You don't have much experience with the legal system, do you...
Grand Juries normally do what they're told to do by the prosecutors. Prosecutors generally are looking to make a name for themselves to advance their careers. If the police look at a shooting and say "this was indisputably justified", why should the victim be forced in front of a grand jury? (And by victim, I mean the shooter....since the shooter was victimized to the point that he or she had to defend their lives.)
Why should homicide be any different from any other crime? You DO realize that the police routinely refuse to file charges in all kinds of cases, don't you? That's just ONE of the protections we all have against abuse of process.
What this law is meant to stop is abuse of prosecutorial discretion....when prosecutors bring charges that they shouldn't. I'd like to point out that a great many states have similar laws in place already, and there's been no bloodbath in those places.
I'd bet that you just don't like the idea of you going out and starting shit, and then risking being shot legally...."There is nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction."--Frank Herbert, "The White Plague"