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Today’s post focuses on a one-punch-one-kill confrontation in Florida in which a Mexican television star Pablo Lyle killed a 63-year-old Florida man with a single punch, according to local news reports. Lyle has subsequently been charged with manslaughter. The event took place March 31 but is back in the news now because Lyle has just […]

This post is just a quick one about the story breaking out of the Philadelphia area in which a father is said to have beat to death a carjacker who stole the father’s car with his children inside. As usual, the news reports appear to be missing the key legal issue here, so naturally I

I often caution that a very common way that law-abiding armed citizens get into legal trouble is not so much that they don’t know self-defense law, but that so much of what they know is actually bad information. And where do they tend to get this bad information? Not from the gun controllers, but too

My apologies, folks, originally uploaded the wrong audio file for this podcast! ************************** Hey folks, In episode of calling the shots we covered several use-of-force cases recently in the news, including: CASE #1: A pregnant woman is in a fight with another woman, other woman shoots the pregnant woman, pregnant woman loses the baby as

Today’s post is about a defendant who brutally beat a victim outside of an Oklahoma bar, according to local news reports. This case is interesting in three respects: first, because it’s a case in which bare fists appear to qualify as deadly force, and; second, because it’s an example of a defendant demonstrating consciousness of

Hey folks, In episode of calling the shots we covered several use-of-force cases recently in the news, including: CASE #1: A pregnant woman is in a fight with another woman, other woman shoots the pregnant woman, pregnant woman loses the baby as a result of the gunshot injury, pregnant woman is charged with manslaughter. CASE

Today’s post is about a Pennsylvania woman who, as reported in a headline, “Drew [Her] Weapon After Being Jumped From Behind,” and ended up charged with attempted homicide and aggravated assault., crimes carry sentences of up to 40 years and 20 years in prison, respectively. Want to learn how what sounds like self-defense resulted in

Today’s post focuses on a case reported out of Florida in which police shot and killed a suspect. What’s notable about this story is that it’s yet another example of the mainstream media framing a police use-of-force as if it were a vicious, unlawful murder of a suspect, whereas the actual facts, for those who

Today’s Post of the Day involves a case reported out of Alaska in which a defendant charged with felonies managed to violate all three of the common sense rules to live by I first heard from iconic firearms instructor John Farnam of Defense Training International: Rule 1: Don’t hang out with stupid people. Rule 2:

Just over a week ago we wrote about an Alabama woman who was the initial aggressor in a deadly force fight, got herself shot by the person she attacked, and lost her baby as a result of the gunshot injury. After a grand jury declined to indict the shooter for the baby’s death, presumptively on