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Gun Rights Advocates Look For 'Stand Your Ground' Expansion

Heath Druzin / Boise State Public Radio
Gun rights activists, including members of the anti-government group The Three Percenters, stand on the steps of the Idaho State Capitol during a gun rights rally in September 2018.

Laws that allow people to use deadly force when threatened — without requiring them to first retreat — have been sweeping across the nation for over a decade. Today, depending on your definition, “stand your ground” is law in well over half of American states. We speak with Guns and America reporter Heath Druzin about this new law.

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Heath Druzin was Boise State Public Radio’s Guns & America fellow from 2018-2020, during which he focused on extremist movements, suicide prevention and gun culture.

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