New Self-Defense Laws Cause Confusion

Norman Borden fought back twice — once against three assailants on the street, then again in a courtroom where he was charged with murder for killing two of them.

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States Signing on to Deadly Force Law

A campaign by gun rights advocates to make it easier to use deadly force in self-defense is rapidly winning support across the country, as state after state makes it legal for people who feel their lives are in danger to shoot down an attacker — whether in a car-jacking or just on the street.

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What I want to achieve is the protection of home occupiers from civil actions by burglars who are injured on their property. I want to prevent home occupiers who use reasonable force to defend their home from being criminally prosecuted for assault.

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After more than four years, police, prosecutors and even the courts are struggling to interpret Florida's stand-your-ground law, which allows the use of deadly force for self-defense.

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The San Marcos Police Department does not expect to file charges against a homeowner who shot and killed two teens who were attempting to rob his home overnight.

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Just outside the city limits of Chattanooga, where a man was shot and killed by police about a week ago. The East Ridge police are getting in on the fun.

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What a SWAT team did to Cheye Calvo's family may seem extreme. But decades into America's war on drugs, it's business as usual.

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A mistaken police dispatch about a stolen car led to an early morning shooting on Wednesday of a Bellaire man in his own driveway and a demand by his lawyers that the officer who shot him be brought up on criminal charges.

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One summer evening in 2005, an Inglewood police officer stood with his gun aimed at a schizophrenic man who had been stopped for drinking beer in public.

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A Blackwater Worldwide spokeswoman says the company supports "stringent accountability" for any wrongdoing in the wake of a New York Times report that federal investigators have found that the shooting deaths of at least 14 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater guards in Baghdad near …

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If we can launch a preemptive strike against a country that has no weapons of mass destruction simply because (thanks to the administration's propaganda) we feel threatened, why shouldn't we be able to preemptively kill neighbors who seem like they might be threatening?

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Florida's crazy "stand your ground" gun law is part of an ideology of preemptive action against any perceived enemy spreading from the White House on down.

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A Tribune analysis of more than 180 Taser deployments shows that police used the weapon four out of 10 times to subdue violent suspects, some already in handcuffs, others wielding knives. But the analysis also revealed Utah police commonly pull the trigger on fleeing suspec …

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A police-involved shooting continues to spark outrage in the Bronx. Investigators are trying to determine if an off-duty cop was justified in using deadly force to stop what turned out to be an unarmed driver.

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Gov. Rick Perry signed into law Tuesday a bill that gives Texans a stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, cars and workplaces.

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