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  • After the Shot: What to Do and Say to Police Following a Defensive Shooting

    By Doug HowlettPublished On: September 16, 2025

    Your hands are shaking. Somebody was kicking in your back door, you dialed 911, but the police couldn’t get there quickly enough. A ...

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  • Real Tales of Self-Defense: Walmart Edition

    By Doug HowlettPublished On: August 19, 2025

    It was just another summer Saturday afternoon on July 26 with shoppers running errands at a Traverse City, Michigan, Walmart, when chaos erupted. A man near the checkout counters broke out a folding knife and started going full Michael Myers on anyone within reach.

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  • Intruder: You’ll Have to Kill Me—Homeowner: Challenge Accepted

    By Doug HowlettPublished On: August 12, 2025

    THE THOUGHT OF THEIR WIFE WITH ANOTHER MAN will spin most guys into an understandably blind rage. But even if you think she’s cheating with another man in his house, if she’s there of her own free will, the law says you don’t get to enter the home by going full battering ram on the front door (and then the dude). That’s the line 31-year-old John Fisher crossed late last month in Scott County, Missouri, when he went looking for his wife—and ended up getting shot dead for the trouble.

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