ALEC is known for creating model legislation with corporate partners and then working with elected officials in statehouses across the country to get these bills introduced. “Stand your ground ...

A judge in Lake County will decide if a man involved in a fight on a golf course can use a “stand your ground” defense.

City prosecutors declined to file charges, but the incident led to calls to protect people acting in self-defense. Hawaiʻi’s farmers and ranchers have also talked about the need for a ...

Now, upwards of 30 states have some form of the law and recent research indicates they're associated with more deaths - as many as 700 additional gun killings each year, according to a study ...

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Authorities said they cannot charge the unidentified 58-year-old female shooter until detectives can prove that she did not act in self-defense due to Florida’s stand-your-ground laws.

The only thing "stand your ground" laws do is make it so that "every U.S. postal worker, every Amazon delivery person, every pizza delivery person, every Girl Scout volunteer, anybody knocking on ...