Fox 16: “Senate Bill 24, the Stand Your Ground Bill, was passed out of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The bill removes the duty to retreat from Arkansas’ self-defense laws.
Proponents of the bill said prosecutors across the state already don’t take into account the duty to retreat so this bill is just putting into law what is commonly practiced already.
Opponents of the measure have said this will give people a license to kill and this will adversely affect minorities. Opponents of the bill have maintained that Arkansas’ self-defense laws are good enough, and do not need any changes but that did not sway the House Judiciary Committee.”