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We received a comment yesterday to one of our videos on YouTube that I thought worth expanding on. Mike K. writes: Andrew, I am a 61-year-old man who has many health issues, including fused vertebrae in my neck which I believe would make a normally survivable punch in the nose potentially fatal to me. … […]

This episode of After Action Analysis takes a look at policy body camera footage captured during a fatal officer-involved shooting of a non-compliant suspect, one Genevive Dawes, under circumstances that appear more than sufficient to support a prosecution of the officer who fired the fatal shots (or at least most of the fatal shots; the

You’re a martial artist who observes a woman being victimized by her domestic abuser.  You intervene in her defense, the confrontation turns physical, you throw some punches at the abuser.  You connect, the abuser falls, and hits his head on the ground. He dies of the head injury. Is it possible that the criminal justice

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,