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Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we cover the great news that surprised many of us in the gun community—including me!—that Ohio Governor DeWine has signed legislation making Ohio the 37th stand-your-ground jurisdiction in the United States.  (The full text of that bill’s language is embedded below my signature in this […]

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content, and today we take a look at yet another example of a purported case of “racist police murder because RACIST!!!!” has been exposed to be a lie—and not for the first time. I’m referring here to the Tamir Rice case, in particular in the context of

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense content, which in a departure from our normal practice is open-access rather than restricted to our Members. The reason for this exception is the news from New York City of a vicious attack upon a stopped vehicle containing a 74-year-old woman and her 50-ish son by a mob

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content!  Today we’ll be discussing a recent court of appeals decision of Massachusetts, Commonwealth v. Cintron, handed down just this past December 15.  I confess that the decision caught my eye because it involved a motorcyclist—the bad kind, not the good kind like me!—but it also provided

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content!  As the holidays continue the news remains light—after all, it’s the media that creates “news,” and they’re all on vacation—but today I’d like to touch upon an arrest with fatal consequences that will likely sound familiar to many of you. All purported facts cited here are

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we take a look at a case that’s actually out of Australia, and which involves a homeowner who killed a violent and armed intruder with a samurai sword.  That homeowner has just been convicted of manslaughter, and his partner living with him and also involved

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we take a look at a recently issued court of appeals decision out of Illinois that touches upon a number of interesting use-of-force legal doctrines, and provides us an opportunity to explain, clarify, and better understand those doctrines. The case is People v. Lee, issued

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we take a look at two related, but nevertheless, distinct legal doctrines, both of which relieve one of liability for otherwise criminal conduct, but for rather different rationales.  These are the legal doctrines of justification, on the one hand, and excuse, on the other. Unfortunately,

Welcome to this episode of our ONLY open-access content, our weekly News/Q&A Show. A transcript of the show is (or soon will be) available below my signature, for those who prefer to read rather than view. Also, Law of Self Defense Members can access the show in audio form in the members-only Law of Self

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today’s content takes a look a very interesting case argued before the Colorado Supreme Court last week, in which the key issue is whether a claim of self-defense is legally defeated if different jurors believe the claim failed for different reasons, or must the jurors be