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Florida’s new open carry law combines with ‘stand your ground’ to create new freedoms – and new dangers

By Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.”

The law’s creators promised it would protect law-abiding citizens from prosecution if they used force in self-defense. Then-Florida state Rep. Dennis Baxley, who cosponsored the bill, claimed – in the wake of George…

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