'Stand Your Ground' Laws Mapped By States

[KittyWampus]

[Tx4obama]

1. Wikipedia lists 31 states that are a bit different than the OP map

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Many states have some form of stand-your-ground law. Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts (though the term is used very loosely there), Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania ,, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia,, Wisconsin and Wyoming have adopted Castle Doctrine statutes, and other states (Iowa, Virginia, and Washington) have considered stand-your-ground laws of their own.

-snip-

Sources included in excerpt here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_your_ground#United_States

p.s An article I read yesterday listed 30 states.
Not sure where that other article is now.

[KittyWampus]

2. I had no idea it is this prevalent.

[bunnies]

3. Looks like some of us will be seeing a lot more Stevie Wonder shows.

I'd no idea this law was so rampant. wow.

edit: well, it wont be me. We have it in NH too.

[ohheckyeah]

4. I'm just shocked VA

doesn't have a SYG law.

[KittyWampus]

5. Yet.

[ohheckyeah]

6. Well, yeah,

there is that. Cuccinelli just hasn't had time - he's too busy trying to make oral and anal sex between consenting adults illegal again.

[MrScorpio]

10. That shocks the shit out of me, and I moved FROM VA, back to my home state of MI, which has one. nt

[ileus]

14. The self defense laws in Va are already better than SYG.

http://www.handgunlaw.us/states/virginia.pdf


bottom of page 9.....they can keep their watered down SYG's

[ohheckyeah]

15. Not really....

If you are part of "the problem," say by making an obscene gesture or yelling a threat at someone, then, if
attacked, you MUST RETREAT. The retreat must be as far as you can reasonably go and you must indicate
that you give up the fight. Then, and only then, if the attacker persists, can you use force against them.

[Major Hogwash]

7. I wonder how long it will take some of the gungeon dwellers to come to this thread.

To denounce it.

[hack89]

12. What is there to denounce? nt

[bbinacan]

8. You do understand that the Zimmerman Trial

has nothing to do with the Stand Your Ground Law.

[edgineered]

9. 17 minutes: a slow day on DU. nt

[bushisanidiot]

11. Id be surprised if illinois is actually a SYG state. We are the last state to pass conceal carry

And that just passed a couple weeks ago

[pansypoo53219]

13. we DID just convict a GET OFF MY LAWN old coot, that killed a 13 yr old black neighbor.