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This Case of the Week involves an acquittal in a murder case out of Louisiana that provides a real-time illustration of the difference between the application of what I refer to as “hard” Stand-Your-Ground provisions versus “soft” Stand-Your-Ground provisions. (Details here are as reported by The Advocate and other news sources.) The facts of the […]

Today’s Post of the Day involves a video clip forwarded to me by a member of the Law of Self Defense Community (thanks, Frank S.!) that involves a gentleman who brought a hammer to a fistfight. This video clip provides a good opportunity to illustrate a particular facet of the element of proportionality—one of the

In this week’s Law of Self Defense Show we started a new occasional segment entitled “Self-Defense Law Terms That Don’t Mean What You (Probably) Think They Mean.” We also announced a flash 50% off sale on our state-specific Law of Self Defense LEVEL 1 Classes for the states of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, and South

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona has released, under court order, the body camera footage of Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Wells, who stopped accused ISIS knife attacker Ismail Hamed the old-fashioned way—by demonstrating once again why it’s not a good idea to bring a knife to a gunfight. Hamed now stands charged by Arizona authorities

Today’s Post of the Day involves the police response to an armed robbery by a career criminal in New York City two days ago that resulted in the death of a police Detective and the wounding of police Sergeant, as reported by the New York Post and other news sources. As it would turn out

Today’s Post of the Day looks at a purse snatching case out of Nashville this past Monday in which the victim’s husband ended up shooting the thief. Wait a minute, isn’t the use of deadly force in defense of property unlawful? Generally yes, and likely so in this case … but the details matter, and