Stand your ground makes the standard fascist claim: everyone agrees except you, and we’re all defending ourselves against you. Once a group starts making that claim, ...

“Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?” Jesus asks with a touch of human annoyance. It’s like he’s thinking: Don’t ...

'Stand your ground' has become a get-out-of-jail-free license to kill After the most recent Florida incident, members of Congress demand answers on a law that leaves black America vulnerable.

"Stand your ground" laws, Hassan notes, "go further" because they "apply anyplace where a person has a legal right to be, not just at home." He cites Florida's law as an example.

Florida was the first state to implement the stand-your-ground law in 2005, which allows people to use deadly or non-deadly force in self-defense. A local stand-your-ground case is happening right ...

In Stand Your Ground states, 45 per cent of cases with a white shooter and a Black victim were deemed justified, compared with just 11 per cent of cases with a Black shooter and a white victim, ...

Standing his ground. Florida’s law basically says if you are attacked in your home, you have the right to "stand your ground," according to an analysis by the National Conference of State ...