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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

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