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MS: Senate passes bill to expand use of deadly force
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"The state Senate passed a bill today that would expand self-defense laws in the state."
"Senate Bill 2426 expands a person's right to use deadly force to protect a business after hours and cars. Current law only allowed for deadly force in protecting a person's dwelling. The House passed a similar, but more expansive, bill last week."
"Senate Judiciary A Committee Chairman Charlie Ross, R-Brandon, authored the bill, basing it on a similar law that recently passed in Florida."
"'It's important people be allowed to protect their homes and businesses,' Ross said. 'As good a job as law enforcement does, they can't be everywhere.'"
"The bill will also remove a person's 'duty to retreat' when being threatened." ... |
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Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would. — JOHN ADAMS |
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