Stand-your-ground laws make public places more dangerous

Evidence

Critics argued that the passage of a law that gives people the right to shoot someone if they feel threatened makes public places more dangerous, not safer. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1216

Categorization

• XREF: The contested empirical claim matches the reader’s theme of how rationalizing policy (‘self-defense’) shields harmful institutional outcomes from responsibility.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1216