'Stand Your Ground' Laws Linked to 11% Spike in US Gun Homicides: Study

[AZProgressive]

So-called "stand your ground" laws are associated with hundreds of additional homicides each year in the United States, according to new research conducted by public health scholars, who say that these laws "should be reconsidered to prevent unnecessary violent deaths."

The enactment of SYG laws contributed to an especially pronounced rise in firearm homicide rates in many Southern states that were quick to adopt the laws.

Published Monday in JAMA Network Open, a peer-reviewed medical journal, the study compares homicide trends in roughly two dozen states that enacted stand-your-ground (SYG) laws between 2000 and 2016 with patterns from 18 states that didn't have such laws during the study period.

Researchers found that SYG laws were associated with an "abrupt and sustained" 8% to 11% national increase in monthly firearm homicide rates, causing an extra 58 to 72 deaths per month. "This monthly increase alone exceeds total rates of homicides in most Northern and Western European countries today," wrote the authors.

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[Crunchy Frog]

1. The people passing those laws WANT more unnecessary violent deaths.

[Probatim]

2. It's not homicide if it's in self-defense!!!!

I can hear the humpers screaming.

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, ... well, unless you're black in your own home or a friends

[gratuitous]

4. This calls for a swift and serious response

Stop gathering data and studying this!