"Stand your ground" doesn't mean "anything goes" in Texas. Here's what to know about when using force is actually legal.

According to Washington, DC–based attorney and Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Yuri Vanetik, for more than two centuries, the American commitment to individual liberty has been rooted in a ...

PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. (FOX 56) — A bond that lasted over a decade ended with a gunshot. “I was just in disbelief at first. Like, they have the wrong person; there’s no way that happened,” Lauri Beasley ...

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 ...

Three Polk County defendants charged with murder are claiming self-defense under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. The law, enacted in 2005, removes the duty to retreat before using deadly force.

When Ajike “AJ” Owens went to Susan Lorincz’s door on June 2, 2023, the confrontation was one in a series of years-long disagreements between the two neighbors. Lorincz, 58 at the time, and Owens, 35, ...

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An attendee at a gun-rights rally open carries his gun in a holster that reads "We the People" from the Preamble to the United States Constitution. This article is republished from The Conversation, ...

As of September 2025, Florida allows open carry and permitless carry, in addition to its stand your ground law. Joe Raedle/Getty Images News Caroline Light, Harvard University Twenty years ago, ...

Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “Stand Your Ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.” I’m a historian who has studied the roots of Stand Your Ground ...

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, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Caroline Light, Harvard University (THE CONVERSATION) Twenty years ago, Florida Gov.