{"id":905,"date":"2012-10-19T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=905"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:42:17","slug":"109-pre-emptive-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"109. Pre-Emptive Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-906\" title=\"SelfDefense14\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense14.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense14-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense14-319x300.png 319w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a157f30380c12055223914' value='6a157f30380c12055223914'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a157f30380c12055223914' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a157f30380c12055223914' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a157f30380c12055223914' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 15: It Was Either Him or Me <br \/>Self-Defense pg 14: Don&#8217;t Wait<\/p>\n<p><em>Eddie and the barmaid watch as Arnold pummels Britt<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>EDDIE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You\u00a0<strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> have to\u00a0<strong>wait<\/strong> for the other guy to hit you first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">So long as you reasonably believe that you&#8217;re about to get hurt, you&#8217;re allowed to hurt\u00a0<strong>first<\/strong> to prevent it from happening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And you&#8217;re allowed to keep\u00a0<strong>on<\/strong> hitting until the other guy isn&#8217;t a\u00a0<strong>threat<\/strong> to you any more.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a157f30380c12055223914' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}