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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.
Caroline Light is a senior lecturer at Harvard University and the author of “Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense.” She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.
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 ]
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[75] [76] After the Florida law had been passed, ALEC adopted a model bill with the same wording. [4] In the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012, ALEC's support for Stand Your Ground laws ultimately led to the departure of high-profile corporate members such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Bank of America, and General Motors. [40]
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