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Stand Your Ground only gives non-felon US residents the power police have always had: To kill a perceived threat. People who go out of their way to appear as a threat, are going to get themselves killed. A lot. For example an armed shopkeeper who has posted "No Guns" signs on his doors, won't even be charged when he kills one of these morons who comes in visibly armed anyway.
And the really stupid thing about Stand Your Ground is that the defense depends on the winner's "feelings" he gets to testify about. No testimony about the dead guy's feelings or intentions is possible since he's dead. So the innocent party is the one who shoots first. We might as well just say the one wearing the black hat is the bad guy.