{"id":4456,"date":"2017-12-13T21:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2017-12-13T21:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:49:38","slug":"deadly-force-instructor-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/deadly-force-instructor-class\/","title":{"rendered":"DEADLY FORCE INSTRUCTOR CLASS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching the judicious use of lethal force in lawful defense of self and other innocent persons has been my primary vocation for decades now.\u00a0 There are too many myths and misunderstandings out there about this literally life-or-death topic.<\/p>\n

We hear \u201cself-defense instructors\u201d telling people they can shoot any stranger they find in their house. \u201cBecause castle doctrine.\u201d We hear \u201cYou can\u2019t draw your gun on a man unless you\u2019re justified in shooting him.\u201d And \u201cDon\u2019t worry about \u2018courtroom survival,\u2019 your lawyer won\u2019t let you take the witness stand if he\u2019s any good\u2019.\u201d \u201cIf you have to shoot a criminal, make sure he\u2019s dead.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cNever say anything to the police.\u201d And of course the old standby, \u201cIf you shoot a home invader in the doorway, drag him inside and plant a weapon on him before you call the police.\u201d\u00a0 And more.<\/p>\n

And of course, NONE of the above is good advice.<\/p>\n

No one person, even teaching all over the country, can kill all those myths for everyone who needs to know the truth. With that in mind, a few years ago Marty Hayes and I joined up to teach a five-day Deadly Force Instructor class once a year.\u00a0 Marty has been a firearms\/lethal force instructor for about thirty years, a cop from patrolman to chief law enforcement officer, and an expert witness in shooting cases for 27 years. He\u2019s also the founder of the post-self defense support industry, having created the now-much-imitated Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network<\/a> almost a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Our 2017 class just finished up in Florida, and our 2018 class will be held in Austin, Texas at the end of January.\u00a0 Our host will be famed self-defense instructor Karl Rehn at KR Training. Information can be found at KR Training<\/a>, class description at Massad Ayoob Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not enough to know HOW to shoot in self-defense; good people also need to know WHEN. We need more instructors who can spread the word, and educate as to the little-known realities.<\/p>\n

Moot court. From left, attorney Tiffany Johnson is in the role of a shooting witness undergoing direct examination from Marty Hayes as defendant’s lawyer, while famed 2A law professor Joe Olsen takes the role of judge.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Attorney Alex Ooley in<\/strong><\/em> role of assistant district attorney cross-examines ace police trainer Lee Weems, playing the part of defendant.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Marty Hayes and Mas field questions from Deadly Force Instructor class.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Deadly Force Instructor\u00a0class, December 2017.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Teaching the judicious use of lethal force in lawful defense of self and other innocent persons has been my primary vocation for decades now.\u00a0 There are too many myths and misunderstandings out there about this literally life-or-death topic. We hear \u201cself-defense instructors\u201d telling people they can shoot any stranger they find in their house. \u201cBecause […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4458"}],"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=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}