The Right To Self-Defense Is Once Again Under Attack

There aren’t a lot of guarantees in the criminal justice system. But for a long time now, there’s been at least one thing you can be pretty sure of — if you kill someone else in self-defense, there’s a good chance you’re going to be charged with murder.

Trayvon Martin called George Zimmerman a cracker right before pounding his head into the pavement, and famously, the entire country — including the president of the United States — determined immediately that George Zimmerman was the bad guy. And of course, Kyle Rittenhouse very nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime of defending himself against several people who tried to kill him, including a pedophile who just got out of a mental hospital and an Antifa footsoldier who drew a handgun on him.