Georgia does not have a single statute titled “Stand Your Ground.” These three statutes set the ground rules courts use when deciding whether a person’s use of force was justified. Georgia code ...

As of September 2025, Florida allows open carry and permitless carry, in addition to its stand your ground law. Joe Raedle/Getty Images News Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first ...

Two things can be true at once: a person can be doing something totally legal in public, and a crowd online can still scream “trespass!” like it’s a magic word. That tension is exactly what Armed ...

OPINION: Today, Nov. 4, the people of Maine voted on two referendum questions. Question one proposed an act of legislature which, if passed, would greatly limit voters’ access to casting their ballot.

“Your home is your castle” it is a saying that has informed centuries of self-defense law. But when deadly force is used, the legal protections behind that phrase can be far more limited than many ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — A police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in connection with a 2019 shootout in Miramar that left a UPS employee and another victim dead. “He has been granted immunity, ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Caroline Light is Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, ...

Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University I’m a historian who has studied the roots of stand your ground laws. I published a book on the subject in 2017. My ...