“Stand your ground laws,” have proliferated around the country after they were first introduced in Florida in 2005, with proponents contending that they’ve kept neighborhoods safer.
A study released this week, however, has found that those laws, which give gun holders the right to use their weapon in public in self-defense are actually associated with an increase in firearms homicides.
The peer-reviewed report issued by the JAMA Network Open found that the monthly gun homicide rate rose 8-11% in 23 states after they enacted the laws, amounting to roughly 58 to 72 additional homicides a month in these locations.
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