Stand Your Ground Law is good law since it puts the legal burden where it belongs—on the predator. However, since the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Florida's Stand Your Ground law has come under intense scrutiny. As of this date, all of the facts regarding that incident have not been released to the public. Florida governor Rick Scott is presently forming a task force to reexamine Florida's law. If the task force is honest, I'm sure that they will come to the same conclusion that the state legislature did when they enacted the law. Critics, however, argue that such laws have led to shootouts over petty disputes and have hampered police investigations with a sweeping grant of legal immunity.
On Monday, April 23, 2012, the Cato Institute held a policy conference on Stand Your Ground laws featuring Clayton E. Cramer, Historian, Co-author, Cato study, Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens; Massad Ayoob, Firearms Trainer, author of In the Gravest Extreme; Steven Jansen, Vice President, Association of Prosecuting Attorneys; moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
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