1. Depending on your jurisdiction, there are up to five elements of self-defense law:

1. Avoidance - Escape if you can
2. Innocence - Don't start or provoke the fight
3. Imminence - The attack has started or is about to begin immediately (AOJ-P analysis)
4. Proportionality - Equal force (you cannot use deadly force against a non-deadly threat)
5. Reasonableness - You made good decisions under the circumstances

If a prosecutor can disprove any of the five elements, your self-defense justification collapses.

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2. Modern revolvers will typically hold between five (5) and six (6) rounds in the cylinder. Depending on caliber, a revolver may hold as many as seven (7) rounds, e.g., some .22 caliber revolvers.

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3. The WEB site Handgunlaw.us can be used to find legal information related to firearms state-by-state but the information should always be cross-checked and verified on the state specific WEB site.

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

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5. A gun or knife are examples of "ability" to cause great bodily harm or death.

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6. The two primary reasons "open carry" is a bad idea include: (1) There is a high probability that anyone who sees you with a handgun will call 911 and law enforcement will be forced to waste their time and yours investigating your lawful right to carry. (2) You are alerting potential attackers that you have a gun which eliminates or greatly reduces your tactical advantage. Why give others (criminals) the advance notice that you are carrying a firearm?

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7. As a very general rule, no one is obligated to speak to the police, but even non-verbal communication can, in some situations, be incriminating.

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

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9. For someone that has never handled a firearm before, specifically a handgun, it is highly recommended that the individual seek out training from someone with experience in firearms training.

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10. There are two types of handguns: Revolvers and short barrel rifles.

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11. Regarding the color codes of awareness, condition "blue" represents an attack is about to happen immediately.

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

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13. Law enforcement can confront you with false physical evidence in an attempt to coerce you into incriminating yourself.

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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

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15. For self-defense ammunition, only buy high quality name brand cartridges. Most often, personal-defense ammunition comes in some variation of a hollow-point bullet.

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