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Justified homicides in florida are up since stand your ground was signed into law. and you can see the number went from 33, 2006 back up to 105 in 2009. we don t have data for 2009 yes. lilyana, i think they kind of flew under the radar, frankly. how did this come about? what is the sort of genesis of these kinds of laws? there s a long history of self defense laws that go back to this idea of this castle doctrine which is an old english law. the idea that your home is your castle. you have the right to defend it. it s a common law principle that you can invoke without any pass in the state. precisely. that s why it s called the castle law, like in texas. so the idea was, you know, but these laws, what they were trying to do is expand broaden the circumstances in ....