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The term “Castle Doctrine” has become shorthand for a state’s use-of-force laws. Some states require citizens to retreat before the use of deadly force is authorized. We rank states based on the right to use force both inside and outside of homes and businesses. We award maximum points...
Republican legislative leaders argued their constituents didn’t want changes to Tennessee’s gun laws. For years the state's elections have increasingly favored conservatives, so the vast majority of legislative districts are usually decided during GOP primary elec...
Finally, always keep in mind that active shooter situations should not be the main focus in the gun debate, whether for gun control or gun decontrol: They on average account for less than 1% of the U.S. homicide rate and are unusually hard to stop through gun control laws (since the k...
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"People are sitting there making decisions without having an intelligent perspective on what this does," says Pettis. "These people that are making laws, they have not been there. I feel like they need to come to places like this. I feel like they need to sit and talk to women like me...
They found that the states with the highest scores, and therefore, the most lax gun laws — Vermont, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Arizona — also saw the most mass shootings. (Florida, which has witnessed some of the most devastating recent shootings, wasn’t included because it’s the ...
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A requirement of the license was local and state laws had to be obeyed. Violating the provisions of the act or knowingly supplying false information to obtain a license, was punishable by a fine of $2,000 or imprisonment for five years. If a license was revoked for cause, a person had...
The nonprofit Violence Policy Center notes that states with the lowest gun death rates typically havestrong gun violence prevention lawsand low gun ownership rates. Mississippi has the worst firearm death rate of 32.6 deaths per 100,000 residents — nearly ten times higher than Massachusetts' rate ...