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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.
A 2012 study examined whether a prominent Stand Your Ground shooting, Joe Horn shooting controversy, in 2007, which brought public attention to Texas' stand-your-ground law impacted crime. The study found that subsequent to the shooting, burglaries decreased significantly in Houston , but not in Dallas , over a 20-month period. [ 71 ]
In many other stand your ground cases, the only living witness is the person who pulled the trigger, and prosecutors struggle to disprove someone’s claim of being fearful. Further, both shooters ...
Stand Your Ground, a book by Eric Walters Stand Your Ground (band) , an American Christian hardcore band 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
Waters was quoted as saying "'Terri's family, Terri's doctors and clergy know best. Not people who have never met her.'" [27] That same year, the Legislature passed a stand-your-ground law that had been strongly supported by the National Rifle Association. The law removed the a person's "'duty to retreat'" when attacked in a place outside the ...
In Georgia, which also has a stand your ground law, three white men accused of fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 claimed self-defense. Travis McMichael, his father Greg McMichael and neighbor ...
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