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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.
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The NRA promotes Eddie Eagle GunSafe as an alternative to the (CAP law) or safe storage law. Marion Hammer, the NRA lobbyist who promoted the stand-your-ground law, created the Eddie Eagle GunSafe program in the late 1980s. [44] According to the NRA, by 2016, there were 28 million children who had completed the Eddie Eagle program.
The “stand your ground” law has long been under scrutiny, after a number of high-profile shootings, most notably the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old who was fatally shot after a ...
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 ...
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A 2020 study by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said "white-on-black homicides have justifiable findings 33 percentage points more often than black-on-white homicides,” with “stand your ...