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Birmingham, Alabama, has had 53 times the rate of justifiable homicides recorded by the FBI UCR for the nation, so far in 2019. The City has 11 Justified homicides as of 2 December.

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The justified homicide rate in Detroit is 25 times the national average. The number of murders is the lowest in 50 years.

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In Syracuse, New York, the defensive shooting of a criminal suspect by a citizen was considered justified. The media was not notified. Defensive gun uses are not required to be reported.

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A person who dies because they did not have a gun is just as dead as a person who is murdered with a gun. In practice, overall unjustified homicides tend to rise a bit when gun are banned.

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Most murderers have a long history of violent behavior.  Knowledge of that violent behavior can be part of the justification for a defensive shooting.

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Most justified homicides, both by police and by private citizens, are not recorded in the FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR).

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The Felony Murder Rule is a law where a person who is involved in a felony can be charged with murder if someone dies as a result of the felony.

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Two retailers have chosen firearms as effective means of protecting themselves and their customers against armed robbers.

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Those who want a disarmed population make much of the few hundred homicides from all over the country officially designated as such by the FBI.

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Investigators decided the shooter acted within the law when he shot a would-be robber 11 times at a Hixson, Tennessee apartment complex in March of 2016.

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A large percentage of homicides remain unsolved. We cannot know how many of them are jusiified homicides, but we can be sure that some are.

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The Knoxville Police Department said the case is closed and according to a local attorney, Issac Scruggs would only face charges if the federal government intervened, which he said would be unusual and unlikely.

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