New Hampshire House Vote To Repeal Stand Your Ground Law

[Robb]

Woot.

The Democrat-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives voted narrowly Wednesday to approve legislation that would repeal the state's Stand Your Ground law.

The bill's passage sets the stage for debate in the Republican-controlled state Senate over the future of a law first approved in 2011. Stand Your Ground laws are designed to allow a person to shoot a potential attacker if they believe they are in danger and cannot flee.

Passage followed intense debate, with opponents saying the bill would put New Hampshire's women in danger, and bring political retaliation. Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) is expected to sign the bill if it passes the Senate.

Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/new-hampshire-stand-your-ground_n_2964309.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I didn't know New Hampshire had a SYG law.

How many other states have one?

[freshwest]

3. Often included in laws penned by ALEC.

Many states have some form of Castle Doctrine or Stand Your Ground law.

Alabama,[11]
Alaska,
Arizona,[12]
California,[13][14]
Florida,
Georgia,
Illinois[citation needed], Indiana,
Iowa,[15]
Kansas,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,[12]
Maine,
Michigan,[12]
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Montana,[12]
New Hampshire,[12]
North Carolina,
North Dakota,
Ohio,
Oregon,
Oklahoma,[12]
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,[16]
South Carolina,
South Dakota,
Tennessee,[12]
Texas,[17]
Utah,[18]
West Virginia,[12]
Wisconsin and
Wyoming

have adopted Castle Doctrine statutes, and other states

(Iowa,[19]
Virginia,[20] and
Washington)

have considered "Stand Your Ground" laws of their own.[21][22][23]

Some of the states that have passed or are considering "stand your ground" laws already implement "stand your ground" principles in their case law.

Indiana and
Georgia,

among other states, already had "stand your ground" case law and passed "stand your ground" statutes due to possible concerns of the case law being replaced by "duty to retreat" in later court rulings.

Other states, including

Washington and Virginia,

have "stand your ground" in their case law but have not adopted statutes;

West Virginia

had a long tradition of "stand your ground" in its case law[24] before codifying it as a statute in 2008. These states did not have civil immunity for self-defense in their previous self-defense statutes.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law

Appears almost universal in the United States, but now NH is off the list. ALEC writes laws to benefit corporations, not citizens. I formatted that not as Wikipedia had it, but to make a list. Hope that is helpful.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Our loonislature was taken over by teahadists in 2010

and they rammed through a whole bunch of depraved shit before getting ousted from the house in 2012. They had a veto proof majority in both houses and a House majority leader who was following the ALEC playbook by the letter.

[Robb]

6. You will love this. From the National Rifle and Hyperbole Association:

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/2013/3/new-hampshire-house-passes-shurtleff-criminal-protection-bill.aspx?s=&st=&ps=

Today, the state House of Representatives undermined your inherent right to self-defense by passing House Bill 135 by a 189-184 vote. Introduced by state Representative Stephen Shurtleff (D- Merrimack 11), HB 135 will render law-abiding citizens defenseless victims by removing consequences for criminal activity.

[freshwest]

7. I'd say he got on the train to Nutsoville years ago, but that ain't it. What a shill.

We need to find the names of manufacturers and who invested in these guys, as BB said earlier.

First cut the root of this poison tree and the rest will topple. The money for LaPee comes from somewhere - we need to find it.

[ellisonz]

2. You mean the "right-wing let's not have an actual justice system" law?

It will be interesting to see if the state Senate deigns to pass it.

[HockeyMom]

4. I live in Florida

I am not Standing my Ground. I will RUN. No material posession is worth it.