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A 2016 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association compared homicide rates in Florida following the passage of its "stand your ground" self-defense law to the rates in four control states, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Virginia, which have no similar laws. It found that the law was associated with a 24.4% increase in homicide and ...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law a bill that removes a legal duty to attempt to retreat before using firearms in self defense. Ohio Gov. signs controversial 'stand your ground' legislation ...
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 ]
A castle doctrine, also known as a castle law or a defense of habitation law, is a legal doctrine that designates a person's abode or any legally occupied place (for example, an automobile or a home) as a place in which that person has protections and immunities permitting one, in certain circumstances, to use force (up to and including deadly force) to defend oneself against an intruder, free ...
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Stand Your Ground (Wild Horses album), 1981; Stand Your Ground (Mike Tramp album), 2011 "Stand Your Ground" (CSI: Miami episode) 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 ...
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 ...