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In today’s Law of Self Defense Q&A Show we’ll address a variety of self-defense law questions, including: Can I be a licensed bodyguard to my own wife, and then carry in restricted locations? Are the flurry of new gun control laws being passed constitutional? When can I point my gun at another person and not […]

One driver cuts the gas line at Costco, and finds himself being chastised by a second driver for the offense. The first driver decides to escalate the verbal confrontation to the physical be securing an expanding baton from his truck. The second driver responds to this by presenting a pistol. Who is in the right?

In an officer-involved shooting that is reminiscent of Texas Police Officer Aaron Dean’s 2019 prowler-investigating shooting of Atatiana Jefferson–for which Dean was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in jail (perhaps not coincidentally that shooting occurred on November 10)–another Texas police officer has shot and killed another homeowner while responding

Last week I was interviewed for about an hour by Jean-Francois (aka Jeff) Truchon, CEO & Founder, The Atomic Bear, a survivalist equipment business, as part of his research for a self-defense book he’s writing. I’m sharing my own copy of this interview with Law of Self Defense Members only, in this pre-recorded show content.

Three men got involved in a low-level confrontation outside an Illinois pizza place last Friday–and things escalated quickly, as captured on video. Ultimately, Michael Freund, who was watching the other two men wrestle each other on a porch. One of those two men was purportedly a friend of Freund’s, and the other was Dexter Perkins.

A Texas mother of four children is compelled to shoot a burglar violently entering her home at night after she’s unable to get the police to respond to her repeated 911 calls for help. An Oregon woman facing a similar violent home intruder spends minutes talking with 911 as her home is breached, her pleas

Last Friday USCCA Chairman Tim Schmidt released a YouTube video responding to varied criticisms of that organization. In particular, Tim spoke to criticism of how USCCA managed its legal defense obligations to two of its members–Kayla Giles (later found guilty of murder at trial and sentenced to life) and Alan Colie (found guilty on a

You use deadly defensive force because you believe your attacker is coming at you with a knife in hand, and you kill that aggressor–but it later turns out the “knife” was merely a large, black magic marker. In fact, you were MISTAKEN about the threat you perceived. Does that mistake invalidate your legal justification of

Attorney David Betras, a self-described “Super Lawyer” out of Ohio, with claimed expertise in criminal defense law, recently published an opinion piece entitled “Age of dueling returns with ’stand your ground’ gun laws in U.S.” In that article he concludes: “The stand-your-ground law is dangerous enough, it shouldn’t be the avenue for the resurgence of

Yesterday the internet fed my email a whole series of e-articles written by various (purportedly human) authors on the topic of Stand-Your-Ground law in different states. The legal accuracy of these articles ranged from OK to just wrong. It then occurred to me that all these suddenly produced articles on the same topic and of