For the 5th straight night, demonstrators continued to protest the George Zimmerman verdict throughout southern California, resulting in 17 protesters arrested in Victorville, California last night.

Amid calls for action, protesters, politicians and even water cooler conversations have been citing data about the controversial Stand Your Ground laws and whether they reduce violence. But nearly all of those conclusions have been drawn from just two preliminary, non peer-reviewed studies. 

For more on this, we're joined by Leigh Ann Buchanan, a Miami-based lawyer co-chairing a task force that's studying the effect of Stand-Your-Ground laws.