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Stand Your Ground Research Paper
Jordan Vandermeer
Mrs. Finkbeiner
Composition through World literature
10-31-12

In today’s world there are many disputes about the old and some new changes to the “Stand Your Ground” laws. Some believe that these laws are crazy and that a society like ours should not need them and that if you shot someone outside your home that it is a crime and need to be sentenced to prison some other form of punishment. And then there are those who believe that the changes have brought a better more positive side to the community and that the laws should be engorged. One thing people who discourage these laws say is that the laws give more leeway to the people on the streets to carry gun and to use those guns in any problem they have. When a person


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