{"id":64489,"date":"2021-02-03T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=64489"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T18:30:13","slug":"64489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=64489","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF:<br \/>\n<em>Senator Bob Ballinger who proposed the bill says a motion will be made tomorrow to pull the bill from the committee and send it straight to the House floor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thv11.com\/article\/news\/politics\/stand-your-ground-bill-fail-arkansas\/91-0ae3306c-af59-4c3f-bc53-e2a504a96e15\">Arkansas&#8217;s proposed Stand Your Ground law fails in House committee<\/a><br \/>\n<em>The controversial Stand Your Ground bill that passed the Arkansas Senate was voted down in the House Committee, effectively failing the bill from becoming law<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark \u2014 A controversial Stand Your Ground bill that passed the Arkansas Senate was voted down in the House Committee Tuesday, effectively stopping the bill from becoming law.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate panel previously voted in favor of loosening restrictions on the use of deadly force in self-defense last month before it was sent to the House.<\/p>\n<p>The bill failed on a voice vote after a long committee meeting where opponents spoke against the proposal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There were 25 people set to testify in front of the committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arkansas&#8217; existing self-defense laws already efficiently give people the right to protect themselves,&#8221; said Kate Fletcher with Moms Demand Action Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recognize peoples&#8217; rights and we don&#8217;t make them back down,&#8221; said Paul Calvert who was for the bill.<\/p>\n<p>A similar proposal failed two years ago after State Senator Stephanie Flowers (D- Pine Bluff) made an impassioned speech against the proposal invoking the fear of gun violence her children and other African-Americans feel in her crime-plagued district.<\/p>\n<p>A recording of Sen. Flowers&#8217; testimony went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Bob Ballinger who proposed the bill says a motion will be made tomorrow to pull the bill from the committee and send it straight to the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 25 states across the U.S. have &#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; laws in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF: Senator Bob Ballinger who proposed the bill says a motion will be made tomorrow to pull the bill from the committee and send it straight to the House floor. Arkansas&#8217;s proposed Stand Your Ground law fails in House committee The controversial Stand Your Ground bill that passed the Arkansas Senate was voted down in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=64489\" 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":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64489","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=64489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64490,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64489\/revisions\/64490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}