Study: Stand Your Ground Laws Increase Homicides

Study: Stand Your Ground Laws Increase Homicides: pAdditional legal protections for self-defense killings — including the controversial “stand your ground” laws (the subject of new a U.S. Civil Rights Commission Inquiry) — do not deter crime, according to a new study from Texas A&M University examining laws that “widen the scope for the justified use of deadly force in self-defense.” In fact, according [...]/p