Ohio is considering joining 36 other states that have 'stand your ground' laws. 'If we got [law enforcement] overreacting, what do we expect the average citizen to do?' asks a former officer who leads gun safety courses for minority women. 917wvxu
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"I was like well, I gotta figure it out," Ware says."I told him, 'Zion, that's mommy's job; you don't worry about that, I'll protect us.' And I started thinking about how I could protect my family." "The police are there to help us," Forte says."But when seconds matter police are usually minutes away. So, people have to learn to protect themselves and their loved ones, especially women.", according to a 2017 Pew study.
Light says historically, the doctrine benefited white men with property, which in those days meant their home, wives and enslaved African people."So even free African Americans found it very difficult to use the law to justify their self-defense against whites," she says. A Brown Girls with Guns participant reacts to hearing gun fire at Premier shooting range for the first time."Make sure they know the laws, make sure that they understand some things are black and somethings are white, but this stand your ground is going to make a whole bunch of gray area for a lot of things to happen," she says.
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