From the Tribune Editorial Board: 'It’s clear that state legislatures should take a second look at stand-your-ground laws, and shelve them if they’re doing more harm than good.'
Kinsley White, 6, shows reporters a wound on her face April 20, 2023, in Gastonia, North Carolina. A man shot and wounded the girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard, according to neighbors and the girl's family — another in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial reasons.
In Kansas City, Missouri, a 16-year-old was shot twice April 13 by a homeowner after the boy rang the wrong doorbell while trying to pick up his younger siblings. Ralph Yarl survived, and 84-year-old Andrew Lester has been charged in connection with the shooting. Such encounters aren’t the norm, of course. But they reflect an increasingly twitchy, angry, fear-filled America paranoid about violence, and prone to instinctively reach for a firearm — even if the perceived peril doesn’t exist. Underpinning this paranoia is a toxic American political landscape that has sowed so much anger, fear and divisiveness.
Stand your ground laws were thrust into the spotlight in 2012, when Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, was shot to death by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer at a gated community near Orlando, Florida.
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