"Stand Your Ground" Laws: Self-Defense or License to Kill? --- Self-Defense
On Apr 23, 7:00 am, Bruce Majors <[email protected]> wrote: > "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 > atwww.cato.org/liveand 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.
