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This Post of the Day sadly covers what appears to be the mistaken killing earlier this month of a Texas police officer by a homeowner, after the homeowner mistook the officer for a burglar. As is often true early on in such cases, the facts surrounding this shooting death are still unclear. How those facts […]

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

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

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

This week’s Case of the Week is an unanimous decision out of the Ohio Court of Appeals, State v. Krug, released just this past Monday, March 18. It deals with a defendant, Krug, who was convicted of several stabbings in 2007 and sentenced to 37 years in prison after his claim of self-defense was found

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,

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

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

The Florida supreme court heard arguments this week on whether the newest flavor of Florida’s self-defense immunity law, which was last substantively revised in 2017, ought to apply retroactively to cases that were charged prior to that change. Naturally, and despite the fact that the linked news article was published on a site called “LAW.COM,”