Which states have rejected Stand Your Ground laws?
21 states have rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Alabama has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Alaska has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Arizona has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Arkansas has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
California has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Colorado has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Connecticut has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Delaware has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Florida has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Georgia has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Hawaii has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Idaho has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Illinois has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Indiana has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Iowa has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Kansas has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Kentucky has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Louisiana has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Maine has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Maryland has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Massachusetts has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Michigan has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Minnesota has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Mississippi has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Missouri has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Montana has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Nebraska has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Nevada has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
New Hampshire has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
New Jersey has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
New Mexico has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
New York has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
North Carolina has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
North Dakota has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Ohio has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Oklahoma has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Oregon has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Pennsylvania has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Rhode Island has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
South Carolina has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
South Dakota has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Tennessee has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Texas has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Utah has not rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Vermont has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Virginia has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Washington has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
West Virginia has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Wisconsin has rejected this policy
No Stand Your Ground Law
Wyoming has not rejected this policy
What It Does
Roughly half the states in the country have refused to enact Stand Your Ground laws, which allow people to shoot and kill in public even if they can safely walk away from the situation. Traditional self-defense laws allow people to use deadly force in public only in dangerous situations where they can’t easily retreat. But Stand Your Ground encourages avoidable violence and vigilantism.
The Impact
These laws dramatically escalate violence, leading to 150 additional gun deaths each month nationwide—with an increase of 32% in Florida’s gun homicide rate alone. And they drastically reduce consequences, with homicides in which white shooters kill Black victims deemed justifiable five times more frequently than when the situation is reversed.