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POTD: A Look at Alabama’s Proposed “Church Protection Act”

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee voted this week to advance HB 49, also known as the “Alabama Church Protection Act,” embedded below or attached to this Post of the Day. As usual, this bill that has nothing whatever to do with Stand Your Ground is being characterized as a “stand your ground” bill: “House Committee

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POTD: Indiana Senate Advances Civil Self-Defense Immunity Bill

In today’s Post of the Day I’m pleased to report that the Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to advance the proposed civil self-defense immunity bill HB1284 to the full Senate. That vote was 7-3, with every “yes” vote that of a Republican and every “no” vote that of a Democrat. Naturally, opposing self-defense immunity

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Calling the Shots: 3-20-19

Hey folks, Thanks for joining us for the re-broadcast of today’s episode of “Calling the Shots,” kindly hosted live earlier today by Alien Gear Holsters, and their guy Nate. In this episode we handled self-defense law questions in a “dueling questions” format, allowing the audience to choose which of a pair of questions they wanted

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POTD: Utah Seeks to Become a “Hard” Stand-Your-Ground State

Today’s Post of the Day observes that Utah is once again making an effort to progress from being a mere “soft” Stand-Your-Ground state to a “hard” Stand-Your-Ground state. Recent progress on this effort is marked by the Utah state senate voting by a wide margin of 18 to 8 to advance the “hard” SYG bill,

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POTD: Officer Fires 15 Rounds Through Windshield: Good Shoot?

A week ago today the Little Rock Police Department released a statement regarding a February 22 use-of-force incident in which one of its officers fired 15 rounds through the windshield of a stolen car, killing the alleged thief. What’s notable about this event is how thoroughly the department aggregated various video footage of the shooting

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COTW: Man Shoots Home Intruder, Charged with Murder, Accepts Manslaughter

This Case of the Week is on an interesting defense of dwelling situation out of Louisiana that illustrates both that the legal risks for use of force are never zero, no matter how favorable the law appears to be to the defender, and also why a defender with the law on their side might nevertheless

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