{"id":65199,"date":"2021-02-24T21:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T03:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65199"},"modified":"2021-02-24T21:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T03:58:52","slug":"65199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65199","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox16.com\/news\/local-news\/arkansas-lawmakers-give-final-ok-to-stand-your-ground-bill\/\">Arkansas lawmakers give final OK to \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) \u2014 Arkansas lawmakers have sent Gov. Asa Hutchinson legislation that loosens the state\u2019s restrictions on using lethal force in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>The House on Wednesday voted 72 to 23 for the bill, which removes the state\u2019s duty to retreat before using deadly force.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1364671161297113088&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fox16.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Farkansas-lawmakers-give-final-ok-to-stand-your-ground-bill%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1364671161297113088\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Senate approved the measure last month. A similar bill stalled in the Legislature two years ago, but the measure this year has moved more easily after groups that opposed it said they were neutral to the latest version.<\/p>\n<p>The governor has not said whether he supports the legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas lawmakers give final OK to \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 bill LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) \u2014 Arkansas lawmakers have sent Gov. Asa Hutchinson legislation that loosens the state\u2019s restrictions on using lethal force in self-defense. The House on Wednesday voted 72 to 23 for the bill, which removes the state\u2019s duty to retreat before using deadly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65199\" 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":[79,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65199","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=65199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65200,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65199\/revisions\/65200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}