On 24 April 2006 the Governor of Arizona signed into law a series of amendments to Title 13 of the Arizona Revised Statutes (Senate Bill 1145 2006). A key feature of this legislation, the so-called ‘stand your ground’ provision, states that individuals have no duty to...
In a study of American cities, the violent crime rate was found to be associated with the rate of use of guns in violent crime, but not to indirect measures of the availability of guns.
