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A 2015 study found that the adoption of Oklahoma's stand-your-ground law was associated with a decrease in residential burglaries, but also that the law had "the unintended consequence of increasing the number of non-residential burglaries." [72] Florida's stand-your-ground law went into effect on October 1, 2005.
The "stand your ground" self-defense law has been in effect in Florida for over six years. The law is now associated with over 700 deaths.
More recently, Wisconsin’s “stand your ground” law was the basis for acquitting Kyle Rittenhouse after he opened fire on protesters in 2020 and killed two men and injured another.
Further, stand your ground laws promote the idea that people should shoot first, and ask questions later if they feel threatened, and that firearms are first and foremost essential tools of self ...
Most U.S. jurisdictions have a stand-your-ground law [2] or apply what is known as the castle doctrine, whereby a threatened person need not retreat within his or her own dwelling or place of work. Sometimes this has been the result of court rulings that one need not retreat in a place where one has a special right to be. [ 3 ]
Stand-your-ground law, a law in some jurisdictions that authorizes a person to protect and defend one's own life and limb against threat or perceived threat Castle doctrine , variant of the law in the US, against intrusion of one's castle (property)
This would include a 2016 so-called “stand your ground” law that allows people to use physical force to defend themselves. Missouri lawmakers held a hearing over Carter’s bill last week, ...
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