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This past December a Colorado man shot and killed a person unlawfully in his home. Normally, Colorado’s “Make My Day” law acts as powerful legal protection for homeowners who use force in defense of their homes against intruders—indeed, it’s arguably the most favorable defense of home statute in the country. Last week, however, a judge […]

Today’s post involves the defensive shooting of an armed suspect by a North Carolina deputy almost exactly a year ago but is back in the news this week because the suspect’s family has decided his shooting was inappropriate. Why did the deputy shoot him? Well, when the deputy responded in his patrol car to a

Wyoming adopted a form of self-defense immunity in a change to its self-defense statute, 6-2-602 Use of force in self defense, that became effective on July 1, 2018. While that’s good news for law-abiding people who are compelled to defend themselves in the great state of Wyoming, the updated statute fell far short of fully

One of the most common misconceptions I see held in the gun community by the ill-informed is the belief that if they are ever facing a criminal charge for the use of force against another person, all they need to do to escape criminal liability is “articulate their narrative of self-defense.” Well, no, I’m afraid

Today’s post is prompted by a long-time member of the Law of Self Defense community, Anthony S. (many thanks!), and it involves a Federal Court of Appeals decision filed just this past July that involves consideration of the Tueller Drill (which the decision refers to as the “21-foot-rule”). What’s perhaps most interesting about this decision

A New York woman was convicted earlier this year of murdering her live-in boyfriend and father of their two children, by shooting him through the head as he slept on a couch. Now she’s looking at being sentenced for second-degree murder as well as a second conviction for felony gun possession. UPDATE (7/15/2021): “HUDSON VALLEY

Jury selection begins today in the murder trial of former police officer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment. Guyger claims that she mistakenly believed she had entered her own apartment and stumbled upon a home intruder inside her residence. It’s uncontested that Jean was doing nothing to deserve

A few days ago a video of a cell phone store robbery started going viral, in which the store clerk does a mag dump into the armed robber, and requests began to come into Law of Self Defense asking for my comment and analysis. So, buckle up, here we go. Incidentally, my apologies for only

I just have a quick post today as a follow up to last Wednesday’s post entitled “REQUIRED: Reasonable, Not Perfect, Decisions.” In that blog post I wrote about the shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old black suspect by Florida Deputy Daniel Estanislau. The suspect ended up paralyzed from the neck down from the deputy’s gunfire after

This past Wednesday I wrote about a Florida deputy who was cleared of false accusations of having committed a racially motivated murder of an unarmed black suspect. In that post I recounted how the lawyer of the suspect’s family described the event: Law enforcement claims of being in fear of a gun when no gun