{"id":7668,"date":"2023-02-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7668"},"modified":"2023-02-16T18:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:56:50","slug":"bullets-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/bullets-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLETS ON THE BEACH!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michelle Pickett, a rising star in firearms training in general and already a star in training females in self-defense shooting, is hosting a great class at the awesome Volusia Gun Club<\/a> in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She has an all-star class of instructors in many shooting, self-defense, and casualty care topics.\u00a0\u00a0You can get info at MichellePickett.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Michelle is as great a host as she is a trainer, and the Volusia club is a joy to shoot at. The Evil Princess and I shoot a match there every year, and a few days ago competed in their Glock match<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0We both managed top ten placements and I\u2019ve been told I earned a pistol prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle recently hosted Gail and me at her facility in Micanopy, Florida for a self-defense principles lecture to a primarily female audience.\u00a0\u00a0Women more than men are likely to have to resort to a gun to protect themselves from big, strong, violent males.\u00a0\u00a0In 1991, law professor Holly Maguigan did a study<\/a> of murder convictions that were reversed on appeal. Overall, the odds were poor: only 8.5% succeeded in getting their convictions overturned. Looking at subsets, however, Maguigan found that fully\u00a040%\u00a0<\/em>of\u00a0women<\/em>\u00a0convicted of murder won their appeals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect a great many of those wrongful convictions resulted from the common myth that \u201cit\u2019s never self-defense to shoot an unarmed man.\u201d On the contrary, the law has long recognized the concept of \u201cdisparity of force.\u201d  It applies when the unarmed attacker is so likely to cause death or great bodily harm if his vicious assault continues, that his advantage becomes the equivalent of a deadly weapon and warrants the victims recourse to a per se <\/em>deadly weapon such as a gun in legitimate self-defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disparity of force can take many forms. Force of numbers with multiple assailants. An attacker much larger and stronger than the intended victim. An assailant known, or obviously recognizable, as highly skilled in unarmed combat.  Disparity of force might take the form of position of disadvantage: you might be equally matched, but he is smashing your head against a brick wall and you have no other way to stop him.  It might be an able-bodied man attacking a handicapped victim, even if the handicap takes place during the course of the instant assault. Just this month I testified for a man with the proverbial \u201ceggshell skull\u201d who was charged with attempted murder after he used his .45 against a 250-pound ex-bouncer who smashed the defendant\u2019s head to the floor; after a week of trial, attorneys Don Hendry and Kris Parker won him an acquittal after only an hour of jury deliberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND \u2013 that disparity of force often takes the form of a male attacking a female. My hat is off to people like Michelle Pickett and Professor Maguigan, whose work will save innocent women\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you can make it to Bullets on the Beach<\/a>. Even if you can\u2019t, you might want to forward this to someone who can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Pickett, a rising star in firearms training in general and already a star in training females in self-defense shooting, is hosting a great class at the awesome Volusia Gun Club in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She has an all-star class of instructors in many shooting, self-defense, and casualty care topics.\u00a0\u00a0You can get info at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668","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=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7669,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions\/7669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}