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Stand Your Ground laws are associated with increases in homicide rates resulting in more than 150 additional gun deaths each month.

Marc Levy et al., “Stand Your Ground: Policy and Trends in Firearm-Related Justifiable Homicide and Homicide in the US,” Journal of the American College of Surgeons 230, no. 1 (2020): 161-167.e4, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.11.003.

Last updated: 1.8.2021

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Women in the U.S. are 21 times more likely to be killed by guns than women in other high-income countries.

Grinshteyn, E. and Hemenway, D. “Violent Death Rates in the US Compared to Those of the Other High-income Countries, 2015.” Preventive Medicine. (2019). https://bit.ly/3kyfsSs