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Slide 2 - Stand Your Ground is different from Castle doctrine. Stand Your Ground essentially lets you take your castle wherever you go. Law allows you to shoot first not just in your home but anywhere you feel you have right to be.
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Does anyone else see a problem with this definition?
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Slide 3 - More than half of the United States have some form of stand your ground. Making this more or less a Stand your ground nation.
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Predominately Southern and rural states
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Slide 9 - Two main types of gun. First two were deemed as tragedies calling for stricter gun laws, while the latter harbored more sympathy for the shooter rather than the victim. Seems every time we hear about a Zimmerman or a Dunn, we get a little bit closer to thinking we need to become them in order to protect ourselves.
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All 4 were tragedies in their own rights and we should be just as outraged when we hear of people using stand your ground as an excuse for vigilantism. Can't have it both ways. Either want to stop these tragedies from happening or live with the consequences more dead children because you want the right
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Slide 13 - Other countries have imposed stricter gun laws resulting in less violent crimes with these weapons.
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Even in America states with duty to retreat laws such as New York, which has a huge crime rate, have imposed stricter gun laws such as SAFE ACT which bans high capacity magazines, requires background checks, and bans the internet sale of assualt weapons.
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