Stand Your Ground laws became popular in America after the Florida Legislature passed its version in 2005. The language explicitly removed the “duty to retreat ...

In Netflix's new documentary The Perfect Neighbor, "stand your ground" laws are at the center. Composed mostly of police body camera footage, The Perfect Neighbor tells the tragic true story of Ajike ...

Florida’s Stand Your Ground law says people who are lawfully present, not committing a crime, and facing what they believe to be an imminent threat can use force, even deadly force, without trying to ...

An attendee at a gun-rights rally open carries his gun in a holster that reads "We the People" from the Preamble to the United States Constitution. This article is republished from The Conversation, ...

Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.” I’m a historian who has studied the roots of stand your ground ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Caroline Light is Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, ...