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This post is prompted by a news report of a home defense in Arkansas just yesterday that stands as a nice contrast to the home defense case in Maryland that I wrote about this past Monday. The difference in law between the two states? Arkansas law creates a legal presumption of lawful use of defensive […]

Today’s post is prompted by a good friend of Law of Self Defense, and myself, Sean D. Sorrentino, over on his Facebook page. He shares a body cam video of a dog attacking a police officer, with the officer feeling compelled to shoot the dog. The question then posed is whether this use of force

Today’s post is prompted by a news story of a California man facing possible murder charges in Italy over the stabbing death of an Italian policeman in what appears to be a drug deal gone bad. One throw-away line in the news story reminded me that many people misunderstand how a legal defense like self-defense

Today’s post is prompted by news of a police-involved shooting that took place in Indiana, and the prosecutor’s report explaining why the officers’ use-of-force was lawful. As always it’s useful to review such official reports and their analysis—and this one is embedded in today’s post for your reading pleasure—to see how the authors address the

Today’s post is prompted by a news story about a recent shooting in an ex-burb of Baltimore in which a homeowner shot and killed a man attempting to unlawfully and forcibly enter the home. Authorities are now deciding whether to prosecute the homeowner. Notably, Maryland lacks any legal presumption of reasonableness in the context of

This post is prompted by several stories published recently by the NRA’s “Armed Citizen” column that appear to model what is actually criminal conduct, as the Armed Citizen stories do far too often. If you’re learning self-defense law from the Armed Citizen column, you’re learning how to make yourself easy to convict. Earlier this week,

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Today’s post is prompted by a report out of the San Bernardino District Attorneys Office regarding a police officer shooting of a suspect who attacked with a crowbar and a hammer. The report does a reasonably good job of stepping through the five elements of self-defense much as we teach them at Law of Self

This past weekend I received a text from a legal colleague that simply read “RIP Carry Guard.” The NRA launched Carry Guard in 2017 as a hybrid self-defense training and self-defense “insurance” program. It now appears the long-troubled “insurance” facet has, for perfectly predictable reasons, been shuttered completely, and the training facet appears to be

Today’s post takes a look at a shooting in Alaska this past Thursday in which what had initially looked like a possibly credible case of self-defense instead turned into a chargesof first-degree murder after the purported defender fired one round too many. In further questionable decision-making, the defender also refused to drop his firearm when