'Stand Your Ground' Law in New York? Not Likely

Still I wish them luck. NYC bodega group pitches 'Stand Your Ground' law after fatal stabbing

A New York City bodega group says the Big Apple should adopt a local version of Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law after a Manhattan store worker was charged with murder for defending himself.

You see New York can't keep muggers and carjackers and robbers in jail, and as a result crime is increasing. But if you defend yourself, well THAT is not allowed in Progressive New York. You should just be a victim - even if that means getting robbed and stabbed.

“It is important because every bodega owner and clerk across the city is living on edge because of the high rise in crime in our city,” [Debbie Almontaser, co-founder of the Yemeni American Merchants Association,] said. “We just lived through a pandemic where all of these clerks and bodega owners were frontline workers, essential workers.

“And today all of these lifeline businesses are feeling a sense of betrayal and a sense of not belonging to those communities because of the rise in crime,” she said.

Not a progressive stance that the Democrats will embrace.