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Annie Oakley, the Ohio sharpshooter who wanted every woman to learn to shoot Annie Oakley hunted to feed her family, became the most famous shooter of her age, and urged women to learn firearms. What her life says about self-reliance. Vermont never required a carry permit, and the sky never fell Vermont has never required a carry permit, an 1903 ruling confirmed it, and the state stayed safe. The history, and the predictions made at each step. What Jewish and Christian teaching says about defending your own life The Judeo-Christian tradition holds that defending the innocent, yourself included, is permitted and sometimes a duty. That is older than any statute on arms. The equalizer, why a firearm matters most to the smallest person in the room A firearm narrows the strength gap between attacker and victim, so the right to arms is a right of women and the vulnerable, with its duties stated. How often Americans use guns in self-defense and why the estimates differ Defensive gun use estimates run from tens of thousands to millions a year; here is why, how to judge any gun statistic, and why even the low figures matter. The weapons of war argument against the AR-15 fails on its own terms The weapons of war claim confuses semi-automatic with automatic fire and ignores the common-use test; here is its strongest form, then the answer. What Happens Legally After You Defend Yourself, Twelve Questions Twelve general questions on what follows a self-defense incident: police, charging, immunity hearings and civil suits, and why a lawyer comes first. Stand Your Ground Versus Duty to Retreat, Compared Rule by Rule States split on whether you must retreat before using deadly force in public. A rule-by-rule comparison shows why stand your ground has the better argument. A Man's House Is His Castle, and the Castle Doctrine Is Older Than America The castle doctrine is no modern invention. It runs from Coke's report of Semayne's Case in 1604 through Blackstone and the Fourth Amendment to state statutes. Caetano v. Massachusetts and the stun gun that defended a mother's rights In Caetano the Supreme Court unanimously vacated a ruling that stun guns fall outside the Second Amendment because they postdate 1791. Modern arms are covered.