Governors are reluctant to overturn stand-your-ground laws despite protests from civil rights groups after George Zimmerman’s acquittal.
Attorney General Eric Holder recently criticized stand-your-ground laws.
"By allowing -- and perhaps encouraging -- violent situations to escalate in public, such laws undermine public safety," Holder told CNN.
Governors Jan Brewer (R-AZ), Nathan Deal (R-GA), and Rick Scott (R-FL) support the law.
"The debate about stand-your-ground laws largely reproduces existing divisions in American politics, particularly between blacks and whites and between Democrats and Republicans," associate professor John Sides told The Associated Press.
Civil rights groups criticize the law because they believe that the law allowed Zimmerman to get away with murder. Zimmerman did not use that law in his defense, but Judge Debra Nelson did use wording from the law in her instructions to the jury.
"By standing his ground, George Zimmerman was able to get away with murdering a 17-year-old black man," student Chelsea Jones, said at a rally .
Twenty two states have laws similar to the Florida law. Support for repealing the laws is not very strong.
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