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Hey folks, This week’s “Cases of the Week” includes nine appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases out of the following states:  Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan (x3), and Texas. You can likely learn a lot from those cases even if your state is not listed, because the general principles of self-defense law are […]

Hey folks, If you’ve been taken to the ground and are being subject to a sustained but bare-handed beating by two attackers, are you justified in using deadly defensive force—your concealed carry gun—to fatally shoot your attackers? The answer is, of course, “maybe,” but hopefully a discussion of the why and likely applicable laws will

Hey folks, This case out of Florida was just today brought to our attention, and involves the justified shooting death of one Ryan Modell by one James Taylor (presumably not the singer), as reported by a confused and outraged journalist.  (The case is from 2017, but the law and facts remain completely relevant to the

Today’s After Action Analysis show covered two use-of-force videos. One video was of a woman shooting and killing one of two men engaged in a fist-fight in a Flint MI entertainment center.  Just a few days ago prosecutors announced that there would be no charges against the woman. We explore how her use of deadly

This week’s “Cases of the Week” includes seven appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases out of the following states:  Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, and Texas. You can likely learn a lot from those cases even if your state is not listed, because the general principles of self-defense law are about

It’s oh-dark-thirty (literally 3:30 a.m.) and you’re asleep in bed with your live-in partner.  Your partner hears an intruder in the house, and wakes you: “Someone’s in the house, get your gun.” The intruder hears this warning and flees from the house into the street.  You pursue the intruder into the street, and fire a

This week’s “Cases of the Week” includes eight appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases out of the following states:  Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and Texas (x3). Access requires a minimum of Bronze-level membership, available FREE at lawofselfdefense.com/join.  NOTE: You may also be interested in taking advantage of our Silver-level membership price freeze,

Hey folks, In this episode of Calling the Shots, instead of doing our usual breakdown of use-of-force events captured on video, we took a dive into the 5 elements of self-defense law, as well as taking questions from the live audience. Enjoy! And remember: You carry a gun so you’re hard to kill. Know the

Attorney Andrew Branca here from Law of Self Defense, where we help you make you hard to convict. If someone threatens to kill you, is that alone sufficient to justify shooting that person to death? That’s the question raised by a shooting reported out of (you guessed it) Florida this past Saturday (and a hat

This week’s After Action Analysis show takes a look at two recent use-of-force events captured on video. The first video analyzed is of an armed robbery in which a bystander draws his own gun and shoots the robber repeatedly, without warning. The second video analyzed is of the church shooting that took place in Texas