Stand Your Ground Gets Support of Majority of Voters

A national poll unveiled on Friday shows a majority of American voters support Stand Your Ground laws. Quinnipiac University released a poll which shows 53 percent of voters favor Stand Your Ground laws while 40 percent oppose them.

The poll shows major divisions on race. While 57 percent of white voters favor Stand Your Ground, the same percentage of black voters oppose it. Only 37 percent of black voters support Stand Your Ground and the same percentage of white voters oppose it.

"Stand Your Ground splits the country sharply along political, gender and racial lines," said Peter Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "With these kinds of numbers, it's unlikely the movement to repeal Stand Your Ground will be successful in most of the country."

The poll of 1,468 registered voters was taken from July 28-31 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.6 percent.