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Rep. Matt Bliss outlines HF 13 to reverse Minnesota Supreme Court's 'duty to retreat' expansion
Summary
State Rep. Matt Bliss presented House File 13, saying the bill would clarify that reasonable force may be used to resist an attack in public without a duty to retreat, responding to a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling he described as judicial overreach. No formal vote was recorded during the presentation.
State Representative Matt Bliss, R-District 2B, presented House File 13 to attendees, saying the bill would amend Minnesota law to make clear that a person may use reasonable force to resist an attack in public regardless of whether a reasonable possibility to retreat exists.
"House file 13 was created in a response to a Minnesota Supreme Court decision regarding the duty to retreat," Bliss said, adding that "nowhere in the Minnesota statute does it call for the duty to retreat. This was judicially created in self defense." He characterized the court's ruling as an insertion of language the Legislature should, not the judiciary.
Bliss said HF 13 would add the phrase that "reasonable force may be used in resisting or aiding another…
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