Report: States With Stand Your Ground Laws Have More Homicides

If you’re interested in reducing violent crime, homicides, or racial bias, you should repeal Stand Your Ground laws, according to new recommendations from an American Bar Association Task Force. In a diplomatic fashion, the 62-page preliminary report hedges from calling for the outright repeal of the controversial “shoot first” provisions, but instead suggests that the laws are a “solution searching for a problem,” that they are associated with increased homicide rates and reinforce racial bias, and that any state concerned with these problems should probably do something about it.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/12/3469731/new-analysis-finds-no-good-reason-to-have-stand-your-ground-laws-and-countless-reasons-not-to/