The Trayvon Martin shooting has thrown an already-controversial Florida law into question.

The 'Stand Your Ground' law was passed in 2005 as a way for people feeling threatened outside their home to defend themselves and not face prosecution.

In the Trayvon Martin case, shooter George Zimmerman invoked self-defense as his reason for shooting the teen. Sanford police say they were told that because of this, they could not arrest him.

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That is leading to calls to change the law.

The governor who sign the bill into law is speaking out.

"It appears to me that this law does not apply to this particular circumstance. Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after someone who has turned their back," said former Governor Jeb Bush.

State Representative Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, said this week at the NAACP town hall meeting that she would fight to have the law repealed. Gov. Scott said there would be an independent taskforce looking into the law once the investigation was over to see if it needs to be tweaked.

State Senator Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, who voted for the law back in 2005, says he is pleased with the governor's actions so far, but more may need to be done.

"It's obvious that some people around the state, particularly defendants, are leaning on that as a defense when perhaps it does not apply," Siplin said. "So I think there's some room for us to go back in Tallahassee to tweak it to make sure it's clear."

Florida state representative Dennis Baxley of Ocala, the bill's House sponsor has stated the law empowers people to defend themselves and should not be challenged in the wake of the Trayvon Martin case.

According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Statistics, before the law was enacted in 2005, there were 13 justified killings each year by citizens between 2000 and 2005. Between 2006 and 2010, that average has risen to 36.