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'Stand your ground' laws are lethal
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It's bad enough that stand your ground laws increase gun homicides, but they also appear to have racially discriminatory effects. There's evidence that, after fatal confrontations, the race of the victim is "a significant predictor" of whether a stand your ground defense will be effective, with defendants twice as likely to walk free after slaying non-whites. Another analysis found that in stand your ground states, incidents in which white people shot someone who was black were deemed justifiable more than 11 times as often as the reverse. |
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Absolute biased opinion.
Calling the Rand Corp. nonpartisan is like calling Jeffery Dahmer a humanitarian. |
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