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Stand your ground and the Second Amendment already coexist. But who gets to survive that coexistence?
Stand Your Ground laws became popular in America after the Florida Legislature passed its version in 2005. The language explicitly removed the “duty to retreat ...
(Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images) (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images) Georgia’s stand-your-ground law law shapes how claims of self-defense are ...
Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University I’m a historian who has studied the roots of stand your ground laws. I published a book on the subject in 2017. My ...
When Ajike “AJ” Owens went to Susan Lorincz’s door on June 2, 2023, the confrontation was one in a series of years-long disagreements between the two neighbors. Lorincz, 58 at the time, and Owens, 35, ...
Georgia does not have a single statute titled “Stand Your Ground.” These three statutes set the rules courts use when deciding whether a person’s use of force was justified. This section of the ...
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