<br>In March 2012, CMD [http://prwatch.org/news/2012/03/11366/alec-ratified-nra-conceived-law-may-protect-trayvon-martins-killer reported] that NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer [http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203270005 helped draft] the Florida law in 2005, and [http://www.prwatch.org/files/Retreat_from_NRA's_force_St._Petersburg_Time.DOC "stared down legislators as they voted"] to pass it. Just a few months later, Hammer [http://www.prwatch.org/files/NRA_2005.png presented the bill] to ALEC's Criminal Justice Task Force (now known as the Public Safety and Elections Task Force), and the NRA [http://www.prwatch.org/files/NRA_2005.png boasted] that "[h]er talk was well-received." The corporations and state legislators on the Task Force -- which was [http://web.archive.org/web/20050810000953/http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/0805/08alec.html chaired] by Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer of long guns -- voted unanimously to approve the bill as an ALEC "model bill." Since becoming an ALEC model it has become law in dozens of other states, and the number of homicides classified as "justifiable" [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/stand-your-ground-laws-coincide-with-jump-in-justifiable-homicide-cases/2012/04/07/gIQAS2v51S_story.html has dramatically increased].<br>
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{{<h2 style="margin:3px; background:#000000; font-size:140%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #000000; text-align:left; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">More Helpful Resources}}</h2>|-| style="color:#000000;" |<div style="padding:2px 5px;"><big>Additional resources on ALEC's corporate agenda:</big> <br> * [http://www.justicepolicy.org/research/4388 For Better or For Profit: How the Bail Bonding Industry Stands in the Way of Fair and Effective Pretrial Justice], ''Justice Policy Institute'' (2012)* [http://www.cjcj.org/files/The_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council.pdf ALEC Report], '''Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice''' (2011)* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741 Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law], '''NPR''' (2010)* [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/07/10887/alec-funding ALEC Funding], '''PRWatch''' (2011)* [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council American Legislative Exchange Council] and other related articles, '''SourceWatch''' (2011)* [http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xbcr/justice/ALEC_Report.pdf Ghostwriting the Law for Corporate America], '''American Association for Justice''' (2010)* [http://www.progressivestates.org/content/57/governing-the-nation-from-the-statehouses Governing the Nation from the Statehouses], '''Progressive States Network''' (2006)* [http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/WOLVESREPORT.PDF Wolves in Sheep's Clothing], '''Common Cause''' (2006)* [http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/alec-the-voice-of-corporate-special-interests-state-legislatures ALEC: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests In State Legislatures], '''People for the American Way''' (2011)* [http://www.commonwealinstitute.org/cw/files/AttackTrialLawyersTortLaw.pdf The Attack on Trial Lawyers and Tort Law], '''Commonwealth Institute''' (2003)* [http://motherjones.com/politics/2002/09/ghostwriting-law Ghostwriting the Law], ''' ''Mother Jones'' '''(2002)
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