150 deaths

Stand Your Ground laws are associated with an increase in homicide rates translating to more than 150 additional gun deaths each month in the US overall.

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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