Alva Review-Courier -

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators on Tuesday debated a "stand your ground" bill that backers say will strengthen the state's self-defense laws but that a prosecutor has dubbed the "Make Murder Legal Act."

Republican Sen. Eric Burlison's bill seeks to give shooters and other assailants the benefit of the doubt that they were acting in self-defense.

If passed, it would mean that prosecutors could not bring charges against people who reasonably believed they were acting in self-defense. Police would need to find probable cause that shooters or other assailants acted unlawfully before arresti...