A short post on Michigan’s Castle Doctrine law

The Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners published this short article summarizing the features of Michigan’s castle doctrine law. This is not legal advice.

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bar exam results

I passed!

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Job Hunting Is A Drag

always has been. last time i spent almost six months pushing resumes and searching job websites before something reasonably good came up. of course, that time i actually still had a job and was just looking for its replacement. this time it’s like starting from scratch again.
oh well. bar results come [...]

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Berkeley Law Dean Defends John Yoo

ok, sure, Yoo gave shitty advice and some people got tortured. And some of the torture victims inconveniently died. Which would be, you know, murder, if we recognized the victims as human beings. Which John McCain and at least three members of the Supreme Court don’t. But I digress.
The question Dean [...]

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header image update

even though the pic is actually of a sunset, i’m going to choose to interpret this as a marker that the sun is rising.

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Shotguns in San Antonio

You would think that crooks in Texas would start to get the message:
SAN ANTONIO — Police say a homeowner shot a would-be thief outside his South Side home early Monday morning. . . .
Because of the “castle doctrine” law, which gives a Texans the right to defend their property, the homeowner will most likely not [...]

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second-chance shooting in ohio

if you get shot at the first time, it takes a special kind of stupid to try to break in again:
A 68-year-old city man fired his pistol once at a 49-year-old man who had broken into his sister’s house on Wallace Street Southeast and demanded money while holding a 12-inch knife.
The shot missed, and the [...]

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