Reposted from the S-CAR Newsletter, April 2012.

On April 2, 2012, former President Bill Clinton stated that the “‘tragedy’ of the killing of Trayvon Martin should cause a re-thinking of the ‘Stand Your Ground’ law.”[1] On the other side, the NRA, whose 2005 lobbying campaign got the law passed, initially supports the law in its current state, stating that it is “still a good law”.[2] Proponents of the stand your ground law suggest that its repeal would begin a slippery slope to the end of gun rights.[3] Clearly, the killing of Trayvon Martin has exposed a perennial American conflict around the second amendment:

A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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