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Hey folks, Below you can enjoy this week’s edition of the Law of Self Defense News/Q&A Show for April 16, 2020! In today’s show I reference a District Attorney’s use of force report out of Pueblo CO, which cleared officers in a “fake-gun suicide-by-cop” killing of a suspect.  You can access that very clearly written […]

Hey folks, This week’s After Action Analysis show focuses on two videos. The first is a robbery of a restaurant in which a patron makes a questionable decision to initiate a gunfight with the armed robbers. The second is of a Chicago-area home invasion, thwarted by the homeowners, by two men wearing COVID masks and

Hey folks, This week’s Cases of the Week, for the week ending April 10, 2020, includes the three most important and interesting appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases in the last week out of the following states: Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Wyoming If your state wasn’t in that list, don’t lose interest, you can

Hey folks, Today’s Law of Self Defense News/Q&A Show was basically a mini-course in self-defense law, touching up on the following topics: The five elements of self-defense law Defense of highly-defensible property Scope of “highly-defensible property” Castle doctrine Stand-your-ground Self-defense immunity in both criminal & civil cases And much more! Enjoy the show! To access

Hey folks, This week’s After Action Analysis show focuses on video of a shooting in Vallejo CA on January 10, 2019, that followed a dispute between two drivers over a convenience store parking lot. Enjoy the show! And remember: You carry a gun so you’re hard to kill. Know the law so you’re hard to

This week’s Cases of the Week, for the week ending April 3, 2020, includes four of the most important and interesting appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases in the last week out of the following states: California, Indiana, Minnesota, and North Carolina If your state wasn’t in that list, don’t lose interest, you can

Welcome to the first-ever episode of our newest Law of Self Defense Show: News/Q&A! These News/Q&A shows are intended to be rather loosely defined, and will cover use-of-force events in the news–mostly events brought to our attention by, and of interest to, the Law of Self Defense community, as well as answer questions sent in

This week’s After Action Analysis show does it’s usual plain-English legal analysis of a use-of-force event captured on video. Unlike the typical After Action Analysis show, however, this particular use-of-force event is a product of one man’s imagination—literally one Mann’s imagination, by which I mean movie director Michael Mann. If the name Michael Mann is

Hey folks, This week’s Cases of the Week, for the week ending March 27, 2020, includes four of the most important and interesting appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases in the last week out of the following states: Florida, Michigan, Texas and Utah If your state wasn’t in that list, don’t lose interest, you