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In Self Defense - Episode 73: Back to Basics: The Womack Shooting

 

Steves Moses joins Don West and Shawn Vincent to explore one of our Touchstone cases. Although it’s agreed that, legally, the defender was completely justified in this shooting, Steve offers some tips to concealed carriers on how to deal with a potential threat before it demands the use of deadly force. 

In Self Defense - Episode 72: Warning Shots, Defensive Display, and the Power of Light

 

Steve Moses joins Don West and Shawn Vincent to talk about whether warning shots are ever appropriate (they aren’t), the different types of defensive display and the legal risks associated with each, and the power of light as part of your self-defense tool box.

 

 

CCW Safe Podcast- Episode 64 Brandishing

 

This week National Trial Counsel Don West, Critical Response Coordinator Gary Eastridge and Critical Response Team Member Rob High discuss one of the most often asked topics we deal with. When should you draw or reveal your weapon in a self defense situation? What happens when you do and the situation ends? With over eighty years of legal and law enforcement experience between them the guys take a deep dive into a complex issue. 

In Self Defense - Episode 71: The Defender’s Dilemma

 

Don West and Shawn Vincent are joined by Steve Moses to discuss the challenge of an armed defender facing a physical threat from an unarmed attacker. The conversation includes the legal risk of defensive display, the difference between de-escalation and disengagement, and how body language can communicate a defender's ability and willingness to defend themselves. 

In Self Defense - Episode 70: Tatiana Whitlock

 

Steve Moses joins Don West and Shawn Vincent to speak with firearms instructor Tatiana Whitlock. Tatiana presents self-defense scenarios as “problems” to be solved, and she notes that a firearm is not only the only tool in the self-defense tool box.

To learn more about Tatiana visit here website here. 

 

CCW Safe Podcast- Episode 63: Holiday Tips for Security with Rob High

 

Mike and Stan sit down with CCW Safe Critical Response Team member Rob High to discuss some tips for personal security during the Holiday Season. 

In Self Defense - Episode 68: Tactical Mistakes in the Ted Wafer Case

 

Firearms instructor Steve Moses joins Don West and Shawn Vincent as they revisit the touchstone Ted Wafer case. Steve identifies several mistakes Wafer made in handling the firearm along with the tactical mistakes that led to the tragic shooting Renisha McBride.

In Self Defense - Episode 67: Kyle Rittenhouse Part2

 

Don West frames the difficult legal defense Kyle Rittenhouse faces in the aftermath of the shootings in Kenosha, and Steve Moses explores the tactical liabilities of knowingly taking a conspicuous long gun into a volatile situation. 

In Self Defense - Episode 67: Kyle Rittenhouse Part 1

 

Steve Moses joins Don West and Shawn Vincent to cut through the politics surrounding the controversial Kyle Rittenhouse case and focus on the tactical and legal considerations associated with this well-documented shooting.

In Self Defense - Episode 66: Back to Basics: Drejka

 

Don West and Steve Moses join Shawn Vincent to take a second look at the Michael Drejka case, focusing on the fundamental legal elements of self-defense: reasonable belief, imminence, and severity. Then they look at how some of Drejka’s precursor decisions turned a close call on self-defense into a manslaughter conviction.