{"id":21111,"date":"2021-02-24T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=21111"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:39:11","slug":"stand-your-ground-bill-re-gaining-steam-in-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=21111","title":{"rendered":"Stand Your Ground Bill Re-Gaining Steam in AR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox16.com\/news\/local-news\/arkansas-stand-your-ground-bill-passed-moves-on-to-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox 16<\/a>: &#8220;Senate Bill 24, the Stand Your Ground Bill, was passed out of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.\u00a0 The bill removes the duty to retreat from Arkansas\u2019 self-defense laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proponents of the bill said prosecutors across the state already don\u2019t take into account the duty to retreat so this bill is just putting into law what is commonly practiced already.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents of the measure have said this will give people a license to kill and this will adversely affect minorities.\u00a0Opponents of the bill have maintained that Arkansas\u2019 self-defense laws are good enough, and do not need any changes but that did not sway the House Judiciary Committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox 16: &#8220;Senate Bill 24, the Stand Your Ground Bill, was passed out of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.\u00a0 The bill removes the duty to retreat from Arkansas\u2019 self-defense laws.\u00a0 Proponents of the bill said prosecutors across the state already don\u2019t take into account the duty to retreat so this bill is just putting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21112,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions\/21112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}