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Today’s post is prompted by a strange and horrifying knife attack—strange because it happened on a public street, strange because it involved the theft of property almost certain to be worthless, and horrifying because it involved slashing attacks to the faces of two small children. As you might imagine I’ve been inundated with a single […]

]Today’s post is a replay of our increasingly popular “Calling the Shots” show, kindly hosted by Alien Gear Holsters every other week on their Facebook page. In this latest episode, we reviewed and commented on several crime videos of self-defense events, explaining the legal (and sometimes tactical) dynamics of each, all in plain English. I

The headlines sound horrible: “Police officer shoots unarmed black teen.” Then the officer isn’t even charged with a crime. Outrageous! Racist! When are the police going to be stopped from killing young black men with impunity! Sound familiar? Suspect that there might be more to the story than the salacious headline pushed by the racial

This past Friday a Florida jury convicted Michael Drejka, the handicap parking spot shooter who killed Markeis McGlockton, of manslaughter. As a result, at his September 10 sentencing hearing the 48-year-old Drejka will likely be sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 25 years to life in prison, without possibility of early release. My problem with

OK, folks, here’s a somewhat more in-depth commentary on Drejka’s conviction last night: Last night “handicap parking spot shooter” Michael Drejka was found guilty of manslaughter, as charged, for the shooting death of Markeis McGlockton. The verdict was returned quickly last night, after the jury had deliberated only a few hours. Drejka shot and killed

I’m seeing a lot of excitement in the gun community about the decision this week out of the Michigan court of appeals, People v. Siwatu-Salama, excitement along the lines of the decision representing some significant expansion of self-defense rights. In fact, the decision does nothing of the sort, is no reason to get excited, and

Self-defense immunity is among the most misunderstood self-defense law doctrines, thanks largely to the “news” media and others who benefit financially and socially from fostering confusion about self-defense law. In fact, self-defense immunity is very straightforward in terms of black letter law, and we’ll explain that law in this post. It does get a bit

Today’s post is a re-play of my recent guest appearance on the EDC Life podcast. The episode runs about an hour and ten minutes, and covers a broad array of use-of-force law topics. Law of Self Defense LIVE ONLINE Class, August 24 Also, there are ONLY FOUR DAYS LEFT until our Law of Self Defense

The Florida “handicap parking spot shooting” trial of Michael Drejka starts this week, and accordingly news coverage of the case—by which, of course, I mean “media lying” about the case—can be expected to spike. An excellent example of such media lying is found in today’s lie-filled report by—no surprise—that festering sore of media lies CNN.

Today’s post is prompted by news reports of a murder trial currently taking place in Arkansas. What’s interesting about this trial is not so much the actual underlying evidence in the case, but rather the fact that this is the third time that this defendant has been subject to a murder trial for the same