Against the backdrop of this month's anniversaries of the shooting deaths of Treyvon Martin and 17 people at Marjory Stoneman High School, heightened concern about white supremacist hate groups, National Gun Violence Survivors Week and Black History Month, a bill was filed Thursday seeking to repeal Florida's Stand Your Ground law.
The bill — SB 1052, known as the Self-Defense Restoration Act — was filed by state Sen. Shevrin Jones, D-West Park. It was the second time Jones has filed the bill — which failed in 2019 without a single committee hearing and which Jones said he knows is an uphill fight this year.
"We know for a fact that Stand Your Ground promotes vigilantism, it allows people to shoot first and ask questions later," Jones said during a press conference Thursday. "More important, it puts black people and other people of color at a greater risk of gun violence."
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Gun bill to repeal Stand Your Ground law in Florida under debate again
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