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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 "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.
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)
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A former ballerina accused of killing her estranged husband was in court Thursday arguing to have her case dismissed under Florida's Stand Your Ground law, claiming she fired the gun in self ...
The ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force, which promoted stand your ground gun laws and voter identification requirements, was disbanded in April 2012. Thereafter, the National Center for Public Policy Research announced the creation of a voter ID task force to replace the one discontinued by ALEC. [58] [59]
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 ...