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Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content!  Today we’re going to discuss a legal doctrine that’s come up in the context of the Capital Hill protests in which at least one person died directly, and that is whether the protestors could reasonably be held responsible for felony murder as a consequence of that […]

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we take a look at the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbit by a Capital police officer during the January 6 protests at the Capital last week and conduct a plain-English legal analysis to consider the lawfulness, or unlawfulness, of that use of force event. Before

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we’re going to discuss a case out of Galesburg, IL in which a gun store owner fought off an attack by four or five burglars.  Fortunately for the gun store owner, and unfortunately for the burglars, the owner was armed. This case provides an opportunity

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 we’re going to talk about the announcement this past Tuesday of the Kenosha Wisconsin District Attorney to not bring criminal charges against the police officer who shot Jacob Blake back on August 23 of this year.  Blake suffered a paralyzing injury. Because the officer involved

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