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News Articles: stand your ground

Gun rights activists are calling on legislators to ensure ‘right to self-defense’

GA2A, a Georgia Second Amendment advocacy group, launched a "Stand Up for Stand Your Ground" campaign 

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Police in Elgin, Texas say 25-year-old Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr. faces a third-degree felony count of deadly conduct after an early-morning shooting in an H-E-B parking lot.

2 Texas cheerleaders were shot after 1 tried to get in the wrong car after practice

The shooting happened just after midnight in the grocery store parking lot the cheerleaders use when carpooling to practice. One of them, described as an all-star cheer icon, was critically injured.

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  • Rachel Treisman
Santa Rosa (Fla.) County Sheriff Bob Johnson is encouraging homeowners to shoot intruders to "save the taxpayers money." Defense attorneys are aghast at the seeming disregard for life.

Lawyers call sheriff's remark about shooting home intruders as 'wildly irresponsible'

Santa Rosa, Florida, Sheriff Bob Johnson says homeowners should take shooting lessons so they can ultimately "save the taxpayers money."

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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Santa Rosa (Fla.) County Sheriff Bob Johnson is encouraging homeowners to shoot intruders to "save the taxpayers money." Defense attorneys are aghast at the seeming disregard for life.

Lawyers call sheriff's remark about shooting home intruders as 'wildly irresponsible'

Santa Rosa, Florida, Sheriff Bob Johnson says homeowners should take shooting lessons so they can ultimately "save the taxpayers money."

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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Adil Dghoughi, 31, was parked in a car in a rural neighborhood late at night. According to local reports, Dghoughi was shot through the window of the car and died on the scene.

A Moroccan man was shot to death in Texas while sitting in a car

The Council on American Islamic Relations is calling for a complete and independent investigation of the killing in Caldwell County, about 40 miles from Austin.

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  • Deepa Shivaram