If anyone is interested in actually reading a study, as opposed to just grabbing a single headline and pretending they know everything, here you go:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...r-ground-laws/
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Whites who kill blacks in Stand Your Ground states are far more likely to be found justified in their killings. In non-Stand Your Ground states, whites are 250 percent more likely to be found justified in killing a black person than a white person who kills another white person; in Stand Your Ground states, that number jumps to 354 percent.
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The study notes that the figures do not prove bias, and I can't really argue with that (it's also never been my point that any particular law is bias, but that the justice system as a whole has been shown to result in bias). What it does show is a disparate impact, and it's certainly worth questioning why it exists.