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2024 Review of Assistance to Members
The Principles that Guide Us
by Gila Hayes
Network President Marty Hayes and I sat down in the video studio in the final days of 2024 to compile the very last piece of our January 2025 members’ journal. There’s an informal video version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ8nqpHOfOI click on the picture if you prefer video format. We waited as long as we could this year, because last year we’d already recorded our Year in Review when two men in the Midwest robbed a Network member. He handed over his wallet and ran to cover. One robber pursued. With a bullet literally whizzing by and nicking his ear, the member applied his training and shot his attacker.
President’s Message
by Marty Hayes, J.D.
I spent the morning watching YouTube videos about the Daniel Penny trial, and in case you have already forgotten about it, it is the New York subway case where Marine veteran Penny was riding the subway when a mentally ill individual, a 30-year-old black man named Jordan Neely came into the subway car where Penny was and started threatening the riders. He was threatening to kill, and stating he did not care if he went to jail. Browse to this link for a good overview of the incident EXCLUSIVE: What Really Happened Between Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely and a narrative about how commentators immediately portrayed the incident as a racially-motivated murder.
Penny, as confirmed by his Not Guilty verdict on manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges, reasonably believed that Neely was an immediate threat to the bystanders.
Attorney Question of the Month
State to state, laws vary about using deadly force in defense of one’s home and its occupants. We recently queried our affiliated attorneys about how broadly the principle allowing defense of one’s home is applied in the various states in which they practice. Because this was a multi-part question, we deviate from our usual commentary format to attribute the answers to each question separately to avoid repeating each question for each response. We asked–
Does your state require citizens to retreat before using deadly force in self defense inside the confines of their homes?
How stringently or expansively does your state define one’s dwelling, habitation, or abode as regards home defense rights? (Does it extend onto the home’s porch or steps? Attached garage? The yard?)
Video Review
Make Ready with TacMed Solutions: Concealed Carry Medical
Presented by Dan Stout, training manager for Tactical Medical Solutions
https://www.makeready.tv/en/watch/tutorial/details/make-ready-with-tacmed-solutions-concealed-carry-medical/5676
Reviewed by Gila Hayes
When I need to do mindless tasks, it’s easier to stick with the job if there’s a video or audio lecture playing to teach me a thing or two. Streaming video is great in those circumstances, with the opportunity to be exposed to new material, benefit from reminders of past instruction and get motivated to go to training. I’m picky about instructor qualifications and while it can be amusing to watch a wanna-be make a fool of himself or herself, really, best use of time requires that before committing time, I need to know that the presenter is competent to teach the material.
Editor’s Notebook
Not Under the Radar
by Gila Hayes
Members of unpopular minorities have long struggled with the need to show others that people of their persuasion are mainstream, are contributing citizens, and are regular working guys and gals just like everyone else. The older among our readers will remember that in its heyday, the National Rifle Association urged their members to display NRA bumper stickers, suggesting that hoplophobes would give up their hatred of gun owners and their irrational fear of firearms if their neighbors self-identified as gunowners.
Stickers and signs also identify the “tribe” to which we belong, or as they say in the Westerns, “the brand you ride for.” Having just survived a hotly contested general election, we still see plenty of examples of signs and stickers expressing allegiance to one party and its candidate or to the other.
About this Journal
The eJournal of the Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network, Inc. is published monthly on the Network’s website at http://armedcitizensnetwork.org/our-journal. Content is copyrighted by the Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network, Inc.
Do not mistake information presented in this online publication for legal advice; it is not. The Network strives to assure that information published in this journal is both accurate and useful. Reader, it is your responsibility to consult your own attorney to receive professional assurance that this information and your interpretation or understanding of it is accurate, complete and appropriate with respect to your particular situation.