WSJ laments self-defense, misleads on facts and law
6:00am Monday, November 10, 2025
Late last month, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article titled, “Six Words Every Killer Should Know: ‘I Feared for My Life, Officer.” Using a mis-mash of half-baked statistics, legal misinformation, and cherry-picked anecdotes, it tried to make a case that there is just too much darned self-defense going on in America.

