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

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par 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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