I think we can expect this effort to generate more than a little controversy:

Northwest Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is trying to make "Stand Your Ground" a national law.

"Stand Your Ground" allows you to use deadly force to defend yourself or someone else.

That characterization — that a Stand Your Ground principle "allows you to use deadly force to defend yourself or someone else" — is, unsurprisingly, not all that accurate.

Stand Your Ground laws do not simply allow you to whip out a gun and start firing in order to stop a fistfight or a minor scuffle. The law's protections are much more tailored than that.

Gaetz's law, for instance, allows the use of deadly force only insofar as the person using it

reasonably believes that using, threatening, or attempting to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another.

Who could object to such a thing? Obviously anti-gun progressives, who generally hate the use of guns for any reason, no matter how legitimate. I guess they think you're just supposed to, like, let someone kill you, or something.

This bill, meanwhile, is unlikely to make it anywhere near President Joe Biden's desk, and of course we can assume it would be quickly vetoed even if it did.