{"id":3368,"date":"2015-11-15T01:39:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T05:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2015-11-15T01:39:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T05:39:21","slug":"guns-courtrooms-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/guns-courtrooms-and-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"GUNS, COURTROOMS, AND REALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a sad Saturday when the latest Democrat debates saw the Presidential hopefuls trying to outdo each other to see who could be the most anti-gun (and in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/democratic-debate-bernie-sanders-says-climate-change-helps-terrorism-spread-2183773\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders seemed to blame terrorism on climate change)<\/a>, dozens of serious gun owners and firearms instructors were facing reality as the Legal Eagles firearms law seminar continued in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Much of that reality is counter-intuitive.\u00a0 For instance, criminal defense lawyers are taught all the way back to law school to never allow a past or present cop to be on the jury that judges one of their clients. After all, wouldn\u2019t a guy or gal who has spent a career making drug busts and arresting drunk drivers be predisposed to convict a defendant facing such charges?<a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jim_Fleming.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3370 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jim_Fleming.jpg\" alt=\"Jim_Fleming\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jim_Fleming.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jim_Fleming-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jim_Fleming-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim Fleming, a cop for the first ten years of his career in the criminal justice system and a defense attorney for the last three decades plus, explained why he <em>loves <\/em>to have cops on juries in self-defense trials.\u00a0 Of all the people in the jury pool, who will better understand the defendant\u2019s perspective better than someone who straps on a gun when going to work every day, because they may face the very same murderous dirtbag the defendant was forced to shoot in self-defense?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve taught CLE (continuing legal education) courses with Jim on managing the self-defense case, under the auspices of ACLDN, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armedcitizensnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network<\/a>.\u00a0 To sample Jim\u2019s experience and wisdom, read the book about one of his most famous cases (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Bison-King-Kenneth-Miller\/dp\/1607995425\" target=\"_blank\">The Bison King<\/a>,\u201d available from Amazon) \u00a0and particularly his book on handling self-defense situations, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftermathbyjimfleming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aftermath<\/a>.\u201d.\u00a0 If Jim Fleming\u2019s \u201cAftermath\u201d wasn\u2019t a damn good book, I damn sure wouldn\u2019t have written the foreword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a sad Saturday when the latest Democrat debates saw the Presidential hopefuls trying to outdo each other to see who could be the most anti-gun (and in which Bernie Sanders seemed to blame terrorism on climate change), dozens of serious gun owners and firearms instructors were facing reality as the Legal Eagles firearms law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events","8":"category-legal-issues","9":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}