https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOxEf5IGaI CBS' new show Tracker claims that Stand Your Ground laws let you fatally shoot a nonthreatening person who is trespassing on your property (Season 1, Episode 3, February 25, 2024). Of course, Stand Your Ground laws do...
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...
In a paper titled, “Changes in firearm mortality following the implementation of state laws regulating firearm access and use,” RAND Corporation staffers have published a paper examining child access prevention (CAP), right-to-carry (RTC), and stand your ground (SYG)...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall.com on the viral video of the Arkansas Democrat state Senator who attacked the Stand Your Ground bill that was before the state Senate Judiciary Committee. Arkansas state Senator Stephanie Flowers captivated the international...
Dr. John Lott is supposed to testify before the Minnesota House Committee on Public Safety and Security Policy will hear testimony today on a Stand Your Ground bill. In connection with his testimony, he has a new op-ed piece in the Star Tribune on Minnesota....
Florida is considering a bill that would strength its Stand Your Ground law. One mother in Florida whose son was killed in a shooting is using that horrible incident to argue that Stand Your Ground laws should be reformed, though her son's death was neither caused by...
A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Humphreys, Gasparrini, and Wiebe claims that in studying homicide and suicide rates in Florida from 1999 to 2014 they conclude: Prior to the stand your ground law, the mean monthly homicide rate in...
On Friday, the US Commission on Civil Rights will hold hearings on Stand Your Ground laws. CPRC's president will testify before the commission between 1:30 to 3:30 PM EDT. (Some media coverage from the hearing is shown below.) In the run up to the hearings, Lott...
The fact that federal court judges are citing Mother Jones' claims about guns as evidence, particularly for what is cited, is pretty disappointing. We were recently asked to evaluate Mother Jones'"10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down." Virtually all these responses were widely...
The Crime Prevention Research Center's recent testimony to the US Senate has had implications for the Stand Your Ground debate in Florida. Rep. Matt Gaetz began quoting from John Lott's testimony at about 3:31 into this video and continues until 4:31. Gaetz's entire...
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...