Report: States With Stand Your Ground Laws See More Homicides

Report: States With Stand Your Ground Laws See More Homicides: pFlorida’s Stand Your Ground law and others like it have gained notoriety since the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin and a number of other similar cases. The laws, which exist in two dozen states, give gun-holders more authority to shoot and kill in self-defense and police wide latitude for interpretation. Over a 10-year period there was an 8 percent increase [...]/p