Tag: Self-defense
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Thirty Years Ago On The East Side
Hard to believe it’s been thirty years since Guy Harvey Baker – a Gulf War Marine veteran with, clearly, mental illness issues – killed officers Ron Ryan, Tim Jones, and a police dog named Laser (story from 2014). The PiPress had a fairly good retrospective of the events – with one crucial omission: Ryan, 26,…
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News You Can, And May Well Need To, Use
What to do if you’re surrounded by a mob on the road? Like most self-defense law, it’s a lot more complicated than you think. While the lawyer is talking Washington State law (talk with a Minnesota defense attorney before assuming anything) they highlight the episode that happened in Minneapolis, by the Walker, a month or…
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Who Doesn’t Love A Happy Ending?
Woman defends herself from a “mostly peaceful” attacker: As someone pointed out in the comments, it’s grimly funny that she had her gun ready to go, but had to dig for her phone.
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Someone Else’s Shoes
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued an opinion which clarifies the duty to retreat in defense-of-others cases. Let’s imagine a situation where Lilly is the Victim lying on the ground, Trevon is the Assailant kneeling astride Lilly beating her with a baseball bat, and Tom is the Rescuer,…
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“A Conservative Is A Liberal Who’s Been Mugged”
That might not be the result of this episode – at least, I but this past Tuesday Shivanthi Sathanandan, a Minnesota state DFL executive who advocated defunding the police gets the living crap beating out of her by carjackers. And yep, she was one of those DFLers:: In her June 2020 post, Sathanandan thanked two…
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On The Fast Track To “Berg’s Law” Status
Everyone’s got something to kvetch about in the Daniel Perry case. The usual crowd on the left is whinging that a white guy, just convicted of murdering a BLM “protester”, is getting pardoned by Governor Abbot. Another, much smarter, crowd is reminding the world, “uh, the ‘protester’ was being ‘mostly peaceful’ by pointing an AK47…
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The Dicken Drill
Noticed a lot more people shooting at silhouettes waaaaaay down at the other end of the range lately? Blame Elisha Dicken, the hero of last summer’s attempted spree killing in Indiana, who put eight out of ten shots into a would-be mass murderer at a range of 40 yards, under the stress of shooting at…
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A Guy With A Gun
Last week, an armed robber at a Taqueria in Houston, Texas got tuned up by a guy with a gun. I desperately want to call him a “good guy with a gun“. pinky swear, I do. An armed robber f**ked around, and he found out. Warning: not for the faint of heart. Somebody dies in…
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Let It Be Noted
I stay pretty relentlessly civil, especially when discussing politics. There’s enough pointless anger out there. But I’m going to say this, and I don’t care what you think about it: If you are part of the lefty social media mob that thinks “Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer”, you are a flat-earther. Complicated stuff follows. Stay…
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Yet Another Good Guy With A Gun
Bystander in the St. Louis area shoots a serial violent armed robber: A man who police say went on a “violent crime spree” at three gas stations was shot and killed by a customer armed with a gun, Missouri police say. It happened around 3:20 a.m. on Saturday, July 16, in St. Charles, just outside…
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More Of This
Minneapolis delivery driver with a (apparently) permitted handgun gives carjackers a significant emotional growth experience. The driver was making a delivery to one of the Abbott buildings at 29th and Chicago, when the ne’er-do-wells made their move: “My dad was making a delivery at Allina hospital earlier today and almost got carjacked, the suspects got…
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Cleanup
St. Paul man shoots daughters boyfriend after he allegedly barges into his house with a very bad attitude: A 56-year-old man told investigators that his daughter’s boyfriend broke kicked in his front door, threatened his daughter, and he shot him. Paramedics pronounced [“boyfriend” Kaleef] Barnes dead at the scene. According to police, this killing marked…
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An Apparently Not Very Bright Guy With A Gun
If you are a carry permittee, you should read this story and literally do nothing the Mr. Davis in this story did. Workers told police that Davis (the “victim”) was protective of the [liquor store where the incident took place]. Davis accused Edwards [the shoplifter who ended up charged with shooting Davis] of concealing a…
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I Love A Happy Ending
A good Lyft driver with a gun ends a car jacking in west Philadelphia: Two suspects in an armed carjacking are in the hospital after police say they attempted to take a vehicle from a Lyft who was armed with a gun he was licensed to carry on Monday afternoon in West Philadelphia. Now, let…
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No News Is Acceptable News
SCENE: Mitch BERG is having a cocktail at a downtown Saint Paul bar when MyLyssa SILBERMAN, Reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, happens in. SILBERMAN: Merg… BERG: Er, hey, MyLyssa… SILBERMAN: Last week, Kyle Rittenhouse was aquitted of domestic terrorism for shooting up a Black Lives…
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Rittenhouse: Not Guilty On All Counts
Live feed. Count 1 (Rosenbaum): Not guilty Count 2 (McGuinness) Not guilty Count 3 (Jump Kick Guy) Not guilty Count 4 (Huber) Not guilty Count 5 (Grosskreutz) Not guilty Strap in, Kenosha. It’s gonna be a bumpy night. : And here’s hoping Rittenhouse follows Nick Sandman into civil court. UPDATE: Judge Schroeder after the Jury…
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Trial And Error
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking through the Cub Foods on Larpenteur, gauging the level of shortage going on, when Avery LIBRELLE almost literally bumps into him. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Aw, ssshhhhhure enough, it’s Avery. How are you… LIBRELLE: People going places where people don’t know who they are, and might be angered by their presence,…
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The Shorter Rittenhouse Prosecution Summation
Self-defense is bad, unless you’re a rioter. Brawling is good. No, really.
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So Then This Happened
During testimony yesterday in the Kyle Rittenhoue trial, Gaige Grosskreuz – the “medic” with the illegally-concealed who was shot while chasing Rittenhouse with an illegally-concealed Glock – this happened: In this, Grosskreutz admits – after a half-hour of cross-examination by defense attorney Chirifisi – that his actions justified Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense against him, and…
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All Things Must Pass
During the 2015 protests around the Fourth precinct in North Minneapolis, there was a shooting incident. A group of four young white men got into a verbal tilt with a group of the protesters, which led to a chase through the streets of North Minneapolis. Then one of the quite guys, Alan Scarsella, drew his…
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Waiting, As Always, For The Facts
An argument over a fender-bender in Saint Paul last May 1 led to a shooting, and a self-defense claim. The case is currently at trial, and both the prosecution and defense are presenting their cases to the public. I’ve heard speculation on both sides as to whether the defendant – Mr. Trifiletti – has a…
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Toward A More Awesome Union
The first requirement of an orderly society is order which must be imposed by an impartial judiciary. That cannot happen when the judicial system is afraid of violence. *** Old: From: Chief JudgeTo: All Employees You may have read or heard that the Court House was locked down today for about 15 min. After a…
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Statement Against Interest
“Prog” columnist looks at the statute and the evidence, concludes Kyle Rittenhouse will likely be acquitted. I don’t disagree – and find that there’s ample grounds for caution for all the rest of us that take the Second Amendment seriously. I homed in on these two passages: When [the first “victim”, Joseph] Rosenbaum, who was…
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Absolute Moral Authority
Patrick Neville – a survivor of the Columbine Massacre, and a Colorado State Representative – is pushing a bill that’d allow qualified Colorado school staff to carry their legal firearms for self-defense: “The only thing that is going to stop murderers intent on doing harm is to give good people the legal authority to carry…
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Men In England Now A-Bed…
The tale of the Brits who, despite their government’s best efforts to neuter them, dealt with the terrorist attack in London over the weekend: Of course, the Brits are lucky it’s a story that’s gone ’round the world; if it were regular street crime, they’d be prosecuted more seriously than the thug. It’s something to…