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mother asks Senate to curb 'Stand Your Ground' laws  (Reuters) -
The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin urged a
Senate panel to help rescind "Stand Your Ground" laws that have
proliferated in state legislatures, granting gun owners wider
latitude to use their weapons in self-defense.  Stand Your
Ground laws remove requirements to retreat from danger and grant
people the right to meet force with force when they reasonably
fear bodily harm.  "It certainly did not work in my case. The
person that shot and killed my son is walking the streets
today," Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother, told the Senate
Judiciary Committee.  "We need to do something about this law
when our kids cannot feel safe in their own community," Fulton
said.  Since Florida passed its law in 2