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"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."

-Robert Peel, known by many as the father of policing, and the reason the British call the police "Bobbies".

I don't think we can equate SYG with the open net and duty to retreat the closed net. It's the opposite. With Stand Your Ground, people can more fully help protect society (thus closing the net down temporarily) from harm while with duty to retreat, the net opens up wide every time a violent criminal threatens people.

I think the real problem is that most people have no police training. In police training, they teach you about the possible pitfalls, both physical and legal, that you can get into. Few cops will try and tackle a situation off-duty unless lives are truly at stake because they know how vulnerable they are without the proper gear and the proper backup and support. Non-police, with just enough carry training to get into trouble, might be more "brave" in a situation because they don't really know what they are getting into.

With a higher and higher percentage of the population never having been in as much as a high school fist fight, fewer and fewer people know why avoiding a fight is usually the best option.

The school of hard knocks and parents aren't producing as high a quality in the crop that used to be produced in most cases.