{"id":63059,"date":"2020-12-19T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63059"},"modified":"2020-12-19T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T21:20:42","slug":"63059","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63059","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/12\/18\/ohio-senate-sends-stand-your-ground-gun-law-gov-mike-dewine-he-sign-it\/3956256001\/\">Ohio Legislature sends &#8216;Stand your ground&#8217; gun law to Gov. Mike DeWine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (FOX19) &#8211; The Ohio House has passed a controversial change to the state\u2019s current \u201cstand your ground\u201d law that eliminates \u201cduty to retreat\u201d before using force in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans added the \u201cstand your ground\u201d language Thursday into a last-minute floor amendment to Senate Bill 175, which grants civil immunity to churches and other nonprofits where shootings occur.<\/p>\n<p>The mostly-party line vote passed 52-31.<\/p>\n<p>Under current law, Ohioans are permitted to use deadly force in self-defense as long as they aren\u2019t the aggressor, believe they are in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm, and are in their home or vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment also removes the \u201chome or vehicle\u201d requirement. Now, Ohioans only need to be where they are legally allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The change must now be approved by the Senate before going to Gov. Mike DeWine for final approval.<\/p>\n<p>DeWine\u2019s spokesman responded \u201cUnder review\u201d when we asked him Friday morning what the governor thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Legislature sends &#8216;Stand your ground&#8217; gun law to Gov. Mike DeWine COLUMBUS, Ohio (FOX19) &#8211; The Ohio House has passed a controversial change to the state\u2019s current \u201cstand your ground\u201d law that eliminates \u201cduty to retreat\u201d before using force in self-defense. House Republicans added the \u201cstand your ground\u201d language Thursday into a last-minute floor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63060,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63059\/revisions\/63060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}