Opinion: Stand your ground a dangerous smoke screen that should be repealed in Ohio
Opinion: Stand your ground a dangerous smoke screen that should be repealed in Ohio Douglas Rogers © Barbara J. Perenic, Barbara J. Perenic/Columbus Dispatch Under Ohio's stand-your-ground law, deadly force or great bodily harm does not have to be threatened to use deadly force in response. Due to the complexity of the law, non-lawyers might misunderstand what Ohio self-defense law was before "stand your ground" became the law as the result of the passage of Senate Bill 175, and what self-defense law is now. That was apparent from an April 5 Dispatch article on the enac...