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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is prepared to make a longshot run for president, which will make things interesting around here for awhile.

The defense is uncommon but has been used successfully.

Country and fight and fight and fight the stand your ground laws. >> there are two issues, one is the culture that's created around the stand your ground law, which creates the permissive -- just if i feel threatened, it's going to be okay to shoot people. we saw data this week in florida after stand your ground between 2005 and 2012, you saw three times more concealed weapons permits that tripled to 1.1 million. and taking a look beyond florida, 21 states that have these expanded sort of castle doctrines, which is what stand your ground is based on, an 8% rise in homicides, an additional 600 ...

Relevant. explain to me the logic there. there were others that didn't think it had anything to do with it. if zimmerman attacked martin or provoked him it wouldn't be relevant. it martin was on top of zimmerman there is no place to retreat. whether you have stand your ground or the previous standard would make no difference. how is this relevant to the debate. gun control proponents have latched on to this because they think they can use this. what it tells you is how few problems have occurred with this law. we have had 41 states that have either castle doctrines or stand your ground laws. a...