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Test Your Knowledge

1. Everything you need to know about gun laws and use of force can be learned by reading the state statutes.

2. The element of "Preclusion" allows you to stand-your-ground without a duty to retreat.

3. Opportunity to cause great bodily harm or death nearly always exists with firearms.

4. Regarding the color codes of awareness, when outside the home, you should be at condition yellow (aware of your surroundings)

5. The line between reasonable force and excessive force is very thin where no buffer zone exists.

6. Current laws (criminal or civil) shield Good Samaritans.

7. No in-depth details regarding your actions during a self-defense shooting should be given to law enforcement. Only discuss the actions of the person or persons that attacked you.

8. In some but not all states, parents are legally liable for the actions of their children when it comes to firearms in the home.

9. Regarding the color codes of awareness, condition black means that the lethal assault is underway and someone is trying to kill you.

10. Minnesota statute 347.17 states, "Any person may kill any dog that the person knows is affected with the disease known as hydrophobia, or that may suddenly attack while the person is peacefully walking or riding and while being out of the enclosure of its owner or keeper, and may kill any dog found killing, wounding, or worrying any horses, cattle, sheep, lambs, or other domestic animals." - Statute 347.17 is an example of a statute possibly needing to be researched in order to find out how the courts actually interpret this statute.

11. If there are witnesses to your self-defense incident, you should ask then if they are injured and ask everyone to call 911 to make a statement as to what they heard and saw. You should also call 911 yourself.

12. Select all the items below that can impact accuracy when firing a gun.

 

13. Self defense law has evolved over hundreds of years and continues to evolve even today

14. There are five possible responses to a life-threatening encounter:

  1. Freeze - The victim of the attack may be so overwhelmed or surprised by being threatened, the victim may become incapable of any action;
  2. Submit - Simply giving into the attacker;
  3. Posture - Combat without combat. Words, sounds, gestures and body language are weapons used to dominate, intimidate and subdue another. Depending on circumstances, the attacker and the victim, one may try to out-bluster the other until one backs down or flees.;
  4. Flight - Retreat or running away from the situation;
  5. Fight - The use of reasonable force to prevent an attacker from harming you

15. Using excessive force to defend yourself could result in criminal charges.

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