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'Stand Your Ground' Laws No Longer Have ALEC's Support

Source: Wall Street Journal | Nation | April 18, 2012



Efforts to pass laws giving people greater leeway to use lethal force to defend themselves have stalled in two states after the killing of Trayvon Martin, and an advocate said it would no longer back the measures.

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