A couple of weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an extremely biased news article on Stand Your Ground laws. Dr. John Lott and Professor Carl Moody both submitted letters to the editor on it. Unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal didn't publish either of our...
Many were surprised that Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed the state's new Stand Your Ground Law. In December, headlines in Ohio indicated: "DeWine Hints He Will Veto 'Stand Your Ground' Bill." The decision made Ohio the 34th state to have such a provision. Recently it...
With the Ohio governor signing the new law, more than two-thirds of the states now have Stand Your Ground rules. We have written a lot on that issue (see here). But we wanted to link back to a piece that we had a few years ago when the CPRC testified before the...
A copy of Roman's report is available here. Apparently, the report was referenced extensively in last week's Senate testimony on Stand Your Ground laws. 1) If you were to do this study right, you would look at the change in justifiable homicides in each state...
Tomorrow at 10 AM the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights will hold a hearing on Stand Your Ground laws. A copy of my testimony is available here. From the Chicago Sun-Times: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) will chair a hearing...