CNN: Jeb Bush defends "stand your ground" laws in NRA speech

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By John Verhovek, Apr. 10, 2015, CNN

(CNN)Former Florida Governor and likely 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush offered a forceful defense of controversial "stand your ground" laws at the NRA's annual meeting in Nashville on Friday.

"In Florida you can defend yourself anywhere you have a legal right to be," Bush said. "You shouldn't have to choose between being attacked and going to jail."

Bush, who signed into law the first such measure as Governor of Florida in 2005, said that stand your ground has become a rightful legal model for states across the nation.

"We were often the model...because in Florida we protected people's rights to protect themselves," he said.

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