Stand-Your-Ground or Acquiesce

There's much conversation about the stand-your-ground law.  Most of it by people who have never been in a crucial situation where everything happens fast and unpredictable.  Obama pontificated that you should use stand-your-ground force only when there is no opportunity to retreat.  In other words, run for it and hope for the best.  Very typical of the progressive liberal mindset.

A very good example of stand-your-ground occurred on September 11, 2001 when terrorists commandeered some airplanes and flew them into the Trade Towers and the Pentagon.  As a society we had been conditioned by our erstwhile know-it-all leaders to simply acquiesce to the demands of airplane hijackers and hope every thing will turn out okay.

The result of such thinking resulted in two airplanes flown into the Trade Towers and one into the Pentagon causing the loss of over 3,000 lives of innocent people.  But, when the passengers on Flight 11 heard about the Trade Center and Pentagon on their cellphones some of the passengers took a stand-your-ground position, and though they paid dearly for their actions they saved the White House and/or the Capitol Building and numerous lives.

When your head is being banged on a concrete sidewalk it is wise to take a stand-your-ground position if possible because it is uncertain at which point the next bang of your head will be your last.

The stand-your-ground and self-defense laws are one in the same, unless you are of the mindset you are required to run for your life before you can fight for your life.