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Today we have a VERY special live guest: Dr. Markus Funk, a law professor and Partner at law firm Perkins Coie. You may recall that back on March 6 I did a show in which I critiqued an academic paper of Dr. Funk’s that engaged in a comparison/contrast of US self-defense law with the defense […]

This past Friday, April 7, 2023, Daniel Perry was found guilty in the 2020 murder of Garret Foster during a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin. The confrontation between the two men occurred as Perry was driving his Uber vehicle amongst a crowd of protestors in the street, and while Foster was among the protestors

The past week or so have seen a plethora of self-defense favorable laws either advance through legislatures or actually become law–sometimes having to override a governor’s veto! Today we discuss eight states–North Carolina, North Dakota Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, New York, Florida, and Idaho–that have enacted or advanced improvements to the laws that privilege their residents

This past weekend a NYC garage worker who defended himself against an armed aggressor found both himself and the aggressor charged with attempted murder and illegal weapons possession. How could this be possible? We discuss! LAW CARDS! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lawcards/law-cards Gracie Jiu_Jitsu 101 FREE SEMINAR (Colorado Springs), April 8: gjj101.com NEW! Law of Self Defense ADVANCED Class!

Yesterday we covered the interesting appellate reversal of the murder conviction of a woman who claimed self-defense in the shooting death of her boyfriend. She shot him dead under circumstances in which he wasn’t in the moment presenting an immediate threat to her. Generally this would mean she killed in the absence of an imminent

On March 5, 2020 Stephanie Clark, mother of a 5-year-old, found herself once again subject to violent domestic abuse by her live-in boyfriend. After inflicting serious physical and mental abuse for some time, the boyfriend threatened to break Clark’s ribs after she had fallen asleep. Clark retrieved a gun, shot the boyfriend once, then retrieved

On March 27, 2023 a murderous armed lunatic shot their way into a school and killed six people–three 9-year-olds and three adult school staff. It seems likely that this horrific death toll was no higher only because of the aggressive heroism of the Nashville police officers who flooded into the school and confronted the murderer.

Today we’ll take a look at several videos of defensive handgun uses in which the firearm is shot to slide lock–meaning, shot empty. Can this be lawful self-defense, or is it illegal overkill? How many shots is too many shots? LAW CARDS! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lawcards/law-cards Gracie Jiu_Jitsu 101 FREE SEMINAR (Colorado Springs), April 8: gjj101.com NEW! Law

Just a quick live show today to cover some short use-of-force stories that have come across my desk this week, none of which is of sufficient depth for a dedicated show of its own (at least, not yet). LAW CARDS! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lawcards/law-cards Gracie Jiu_Jitsu 101 FREE SEMINAR (Colorado Springs), April 8: gjj101.com NJ v. Macchia: https://lawofselfdefense.com/macchia

A decision just issued by the New Jersey Supreme Court addresses the question of whether a jury has to unanimously agree on exactly how a defender failed self-defense in order to convict him of the charged use-of-force crime. Gracie Jiu_Jitsu 101 FREE SEMINAR (Colorado Springs), April 8: gjj101.com NJ v. Macchia: https://lawofselfdefense.com/macchia NEW! Law of