] Break out your correlation ≠ causation tropes: Stand-your-ground laws linked to increasing murder rates

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Analysis of “Stand Your Ground” Self-defense Laws and Statewide Rates of Homicides and Firearm Homicides​

“Stand Your Ground” Self-defense Laws and Statewide Rates of Homicides and Firearm Homicides

This cohort study evaluates the association of “stand your ground” laws with US homicide and firearm rates nationally and by state.

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Not surprising. The Trayvon Martin trial was a perfect example of everything wrong with the law. A gun-toting wannabe vigilante crimefighter picks a fight with a teenager minding his own business and then shoots him dead. Stand you ground didn't apply to the victim. Rest assured, without video, those convicted, racist murderers in Georgia would have gotten away with murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

"Stand your ground" is already tacitly the law anyways. These things that beef up so-called self-defense only allow gun nuts to get away with violence they initiate.