self defense

My partner and I would like to negate the following resolution: Stand your ground laws are a legitimate expansion of the doctrine of self- defense. Stand your ground laws means that a person if fearful of their own life and cannot escape, they can fight using self-defense. Looking at the resolution I made an observation. According to Thomas Hobbes since people fear death, he says that people only have a right to life and that the state would protect them to help sustain that right, as in this case self-defense. So in theory, people only have a right to life and the state would protect their lives so they do not need to use self-defense. Just run away and call the police. And also with this philosopher Sandel, said that the state and individual should work together. As you can see when people call the police, they are notifying the danger to the government which in-turn the government takes care of the problem. The contentions are
1. My first contention is that stand your ground law says that a person can use self-defense when there is a reasonable threat, without an option to retreat. What we must look at here is that reasonable is not clearly defined. Some people might think that a person with a plastic knife is reasonable. According to Thomas Hobbes, states are always right. How this applies to this is that the government will be able to define the word reasonable. So I believe that if a person should not be able to decide if it is reasonable enough.
2. My second contention is that the state and the individual should work together, and not do things alone. According to philosopher Sandel, society flourishes if the individual and the state work together. This idea works along with Hobbes idea that a person only has a right to life and the government would protect that life. An example of this is when an individual sees an attacker and feels as if his life is in danger. He should run away and call the police which is basically the government. In this case, Hobbes’s and Sandel’s ideas work together. When the person calls the government he is leaving the protection to the government as well as work with the government by notifying the police.
3. My last contingent is that people applying stand your ground laws increases death. According to CBS Miami, deaths have tripled since the “Stand your ground” law has been passed. Before “Stand your ground” law, Florida averaged 12 “justifiable deaths” a year from 2000-2004. After “Stand your ground” law was passed in 2005, the number of “justifiable deaths” has nearly tripled to an average of 35 deaths per year. Another study on democracynow shows that 7.4 additional people are killed each month as a result of the “Stand your ground law” if people left the government to decide with the problem there would probably be fewer deaths. And because of all these reasons you should vote for con.