[url]http://www.i2i.org/SuptDocs/Crime/LawReviews/SelfDefenseCases.htm[/url]

From 1893 to 1896, the United States Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions involving self-defense and the carrying and use of firearms for self- defense. These cases laid the foundation for a 1921 opinion, authored by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, that became the most important armed self- defense case in American legal history, upholding and extending the right to armed self-defense. In these Self-Defense Cases, the Supreme Court fought out a bitter confrontation with Federal District Judge Isaac Parker, the presiding judge in all but one of the cases, and a judge who is much admired today by Chief Justice William Rehnquist

I am glad that you posted this, I always post the document Can Soldiers Be Peace Officers! Now only if everyone on this board spends some quality time to study all of it!

No pun, or insults intended, but you LEO's need to study it!

Thanks for the link.  Pretty fascinating reading.

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