Is property really more important than a human life?

The central innovation in the Florida law, said Anthony J. Sebok, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, is ... in expanding the right to shoot intruders who pose no threat to the occupant's safety.

I have to agree with Roy. I think Allen being an ex-cop had more to do with the lack of charges.

It's only a matter of time before the no knock laws gets a police officer killed, using the stand your ground defense.

It's only a matter of time before the no knock laws gets a police officer killed, using the stand your ground defense.

How do you reconcile "shoot the intruder" with the law enforcement "no knock warrant"...?

...I think the weight of the law should be on the side of the one defending his life/home from an aggressor.

If you cannot protect your property and your life, then freedom is, essentially, worthless.

at which he collapses in a heap due to fright and dies of a heart attack? What then?

If you cannot protect your property and your life, then freedom is, essentially, worthless.

Yeah, And the judge would die laughing before throwing it out.

Seems to me that we, as a nation, have had the experience, re: "stand your ground" or "protect your property" in the past.

It began at the when the first colonists set foot on our shores and pretty much ended with the "Old West" when the nation realized that if we are going to claim to be "civilized" and truly prosper, the old law of "Might Makes Right" would have to be superseded by civilized (read controlled by law) behavior. It has only taken a century for the nation to revert to the old ways. What is old is new again, evidentially.

Civil litigation will go through the roof with these new laws.

Most gun deaths in America still take place between people involved in the drug trade

Secondly, most of the US's restrictions on firearms didn't occur until the 1960's or later

I call BS once again: 'The carrying of firearms strictly prohibited,' was a standard reminder of towns in the 1880's.

In 1813, Kentucky enacted the first carrying concealed weapon statute in the United States. The Kentucky Court of Appeals struck down the law in 1822 as a violation of the state constitutional protection of the right to keep and bear arms.
In 1837, Georgia completely banned the sale of pistols, with the exception of larger pistols known and used as "horsemen's pistols" and other weapons. The Georgia State Supreme Court overturned this law in Nunn V. State (1846).
Indiana, Alabama and Arkansas all had concealed carry laws in the early to mid 1800's. [...]
Wichita and Dodge City, also had their own versions of gun control; the "dead-line." Cross that line carrying a gun and you could wind up dead. [...] In 1911 New York City passed the Sullivan Act.
The 1920's and 1930's saw many states imposing "A Uniform Act to Regulate the Sale and Possession of Firearms," which prohibited unlicensed carrying and possession. The National Firearms Act was imposed in 1934; it required a $200 tax on each fully automatic firearm or silencer. Over the years, the tax was also applied to short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and a few other classes of weapons."
The Federal Firearms Act of 1938 began the firearm dealer licensing system.

As historians have documented, the American frontier was tamed through the westward movement of farmers, ranchers, businesspeople, tradesmen, and other populations who, when towns and cities were formed, demanded and imposed strict gun controls as a necessary first step toward the establishment of public safety.