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On the recordJuly 24, 2013
Just incensed that Stand Your Ground legislation can be used to cover up and to hide the real problem with the gun culture in this country, and particularly in Florida, the Stand Your Ground legislation is being used in a tremendous number of cases to protect people, shoot first, ask questions later.
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Lucy McBath
Democratic · Georgia

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Lucy McBath expresses her anger about the Stand Your Ground law being used to justify gun violence.

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