"Stand Your Ground" Laws: Self-Defense or License to Kill? *POLICY FORUM Monday, April 23, 2012 4:00 PM (Reception To Follow)*
Featuring *Clayton E. Cramer*, Historian, Co-author, Cato study, *Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens*; *Massad Ayoob*, Firearms Trainer, author of *In the Gravest Extreme*; *Steven Jansen*, Vice President, Association of Prosecuting Attorneys; moderated by *Tim Lynch*, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute. The Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 [image: Add event to Google Calendar]<http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=>[image: Add event to Microsoft Outlook Calendar]<http://www.cato.org/events/icalendar/cato-event.ics?eventid=9141>[image: Add event to iCal]<http://www.cato.org/events/icalendar/cato-event.ics?eventid=9141>[image: Add event to Yahoo Calendar]<http://calendar.yahoo.com/?v=60&view=d&type=20&title=> If you can't make it to the Cato Institute, watch this event live online at www.cato.org/live and join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #CatoEvents <https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23catoevents>. Also follow @CatoEvents <https://twitter.com/#!/catoevents> on Twitter to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute. Since the tragic shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Florida's Stand Your Ground law has come under intense scrutiny. Florida governor Rick Scott is presently forming a task force to reexamine that state's law. Critics argue that such laws have led to shootouts over petty disputes and have hampered police investigations with a sweeping grant of legal immunity. Supporters of the Stand Your Ground law say it does not apply to the Martin case and that such laws merely protect those who use a firearm in self-defense from prosecution and financially ruinous litigation. Join us for a discussion of what these laws actually cover and what has happened in the 24 states that have enacted them since 2005. http://shar.es/rFsqc Sent using ShareThis Sent from my iPad -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
