(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Since Biblical times, self defense has been simple. Guard your castle. Retreat to the wall. Defend yourself. The U.S. stole its common law from the English, and the elements of self defense didn't change. Until.......Florida.

Why did Florida change its slogan from the Sunshine State to the Kill At Will State? Aren't Stand Your Ground Laws a good thing? How old is the Castle Doctrine? Whose castle is it anyway? Reb lowers the drawbridge on the madness and teaches you all the wheres and whens and hows on who is really allowed to "defend" themselves.

**CONTENT WARNING** Racial violence and violence against women and children.

0:00 - Content Warning

2:24 - Intro

8:08 - Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/Tamir Rice

10:07 - Philando Castile

15:00 - People v. White (2010)

26:16 - Duty to Retreat

30:05 - The Castle Doctrine

30:45 - Beard v. United States (1895)

31:10 - People v. Tomlins (1914)

34:15 - Background on SYG Laws

36:00 - Self-defense elements/Duty to retreat

43:45 - SYG Laws and Imminence

46:27 - Removing Imminence > Race/Gender/DV

52:53 - Bernard Goetz (1986)

56:20 - Kathy & James Workman (Fla. 2004)

58:41 - The NRA & SYG

59:30 - Jimmy Morningstar (2003)

1:04:30 - Charles Harper (2009)

1:06:00 - Pedro Roteta (2011)

1:10:13 - Duty to retreat

1:11:10 - Domestic Violence & The Castle Doctrine

1:20:17 - Deven Grey (2017) / Brittany Joyce Smith (2018)

1:22:03 - Collected cases of men using SYG Laws successfully

1:23:41 - Peggy Stewart Case (1988)

1:31:18 - Kansas Supreme Court is on my sh*t list

1:32:00 - "Reasonableness" for a woman

1:33:50 - Collected cases on DV victims and Castle Doctrine/SYG

1:47:00 - Castle Doctrine clashes with Knock + Announce Rule

1:48:32 - Breonna Taylor

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