Podcasts

Today’s show takes a dive into the self-defense law questions submitted by our Platinum Members, who have access directly to me to submit their inquiries about self-defense law and self-defense/defense of others/defense of property hypotheticals. These tend to be wide-ranging, open-mic, where I don’t pre-screen the questions ahead of time, so even I don’t know […]

In yesterday’s live stream a Law of Self Defense member (hat tip, SirBrass) brought to my attention an interesting facet of Indiana’s self-defense immunity law, and helpfully provided me with the actual statute–and, indeed, the immunity law seems interesting enough to warrant an entire show. Indeed, all of Indiana’s self-defense statutes are fairly interesting, so

Effective September 1, 2023, the Great State of Texas now provides self-defense immunity to both churches as institutions as well as to the individuals who serve churches as armed security. We take a look at this new legislation, and explore how it differs from more common self-defense immunity provisions around the country, as well as

On August 24, 2023, Ta’kiya Young decided to drive her car into an Ohio police officer. That officer fired a single round through her windshield, causing mortal injury. Unknown to the officer, Young was pregnant, and the baby was also lost. Police were stopping Young as she sat in her car in a shopping parking

​A homeowner in Wichita Falls TX awakens in the middle of the night to find an intruder breaking into his home. Lacking a firearm, the homeowner resorts to the weapons he does have at hand–and that happens to be a short spear! As it happens, the homeowner happens to be a member of the Society

A female security guard in a New Orleans library found herself the target of a man’s ire. As the man ran from the library with the guard in pursuit, he purportedly threw both a rock and his cell phone at her, then continued fleeing. Her response? To draw her pistol and pew-pew at him 11

The Law of Self Defense community is very fortunate to have the opportunity to enjoy this live interview of Ohio State Representative Josh Williams (R), who is on the front lines to strengthen his state’s self-defense law. Along with colleagues he is fighting to advance HB233, a bill that would create a pre-trial opportunity for

In this Law of Self Defense show we take a look at a bit of road rage video sent into our office. The video appears sourced from a foreign country, but there are nevertheless important lessons and introspections we can draw from this event, in terms of how best any of us might deal with

Two California police officers pursuing a man armed with a knife suddenly shoot him down from perhaps 40 feet away, and in the apparent absence of the suspect presenting as an imminent deadly force to anyone. One then claims on the radio that the suspect turned and charged at them with the knife–conduct not apparent

A man refuses to obey a woman’s orders to leave her home, despite her having armed herself with a pistol.  Instead, the man openly mocks her as he live streams their confrontation.  Eventually he advances on her, threatening violence and professing that the woman is too afraid to use her gun against him. That’s when