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Abortion Activist Elizabeth Banks Says Stand Your Ground Laws Are A ‘Permission To Kill People’

Paul Bois
Abortion Activist Elizabeth Banks Says Stand Your Ground Laws Are A ‘Permission To Kill People’
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Actress and outspoken abortion activist Elizabeth Banks recently lamented that “Stand Your Ground” laws are a license to kill.

In a series of tweets on Friday, the “Charlie’s Angels” director said that “Stand Your Ground” laws essentially put neighbors at risk of dying. She cited a childhood experience in which she and her friends would sometimes play hide and seek in their neighbors’ yards.

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