stand your ground

Or stand-your-ground

[stand-yer-ground]

adjective

Law.

1. relating to or denoting a legal principle or law that eliminates the duty to retreat by allowing, as a first response, self-defense by deadly force.

   We’re proud to represent Florida, the first stand your ground state.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stand your ground¹

First recorded in 2005

Example Sentences

Since 2005, approximately two-thirds of the states have passed legislation popularly referred to as “stand your ground” laws, which allow the use of lethal violence in self-defense outside of one’s “castle.”

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And as appropriately affecting as that sight is, especially when Gandbhir is emphasizing the inequity of American “stand your ground” laws, one has to wonder how far is too far when it comes to depicting a victim’s trauma for the sake of an audience’s entertainment.

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There’s also something to be said about the power these images have in emphasizing the film’s larger point of discourse around “stand your ground” laws, which allow Americans to defend themselves through violent force if they feel their lives are threatened.

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Gandbhir is so caught up in ensuring the documentary is a persuasive, even invigorating look at the dangers of “stand your ground” laws that she loses sight of her subjects in their most raw, broken forms.

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This is Ocala, Fla., the heart of where Stand Your Ground was born.

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