Private businesses, including grocery stores, can still set their own policies regarding firearms on their property. Publix has indicated it will allow open carry, while chains like Winn-Dixie, Aldi, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Caroline Light is Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Caroline Light, Harvard University (THE CONVERSATION) Twenty years ago, Florida Gov.

Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University I’m a historian who has studied the roots of stand your ground laws. I published a book on the subject in 2017. My ...