Each self-defense case is different. As we read them, we find ourselves wondering what we would have done, and then asking if the citizen made the best decisions possible in the worst-case scenario.

Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe. “We heard there are some antifa over here!” The shout came from a group of ...

In this week’s edition of my Freedom’s Journal column here in The Philadelphia Tribune, I am writing about a historic- and prescient- event in the defense of Black people that took place on May 2, ...

Founded in Oakland in 1966, the Black Panther Party combined armed self-defense with expansive community programs that fed children, provided healthcare, and educated neighborhoods. While media ...

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. As 2024 drew to a close, examples abounded of ordinary Americans whose Second ...

Two years ago in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right to carry guns in public for self-defense. But in Illinois, people with ...

Michelle Barnhart, left, associate professor of marketing, left, and Aimee Huff, assistant professor in the College of Business, recently co-authored a study about how Americans who have handguns for ...

The black freedom movement is framed in popular memory as distinguished by nonviolent civil disobedience. Yet in multiple southern towns, black people used armed self-defense to protect their ...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to a Hawaii gun law that renders concealed carry permits in that state practically useless. While the nation’s highest court appears ...