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News about self-defense, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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No Indictment of a Man Who Killed 2 in the Subway
A grand jury voted not to indict a 19-year-old man who fatally stabbed two men during a fight in the subway with murder, and he will be freed from jail.
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Washington’s Gun Past Affects Arenas’s Future
 The confluence of law, government, sports and the threat of violence create a stark backdrop for Gilbert Arenas’s decision to store several guns in a Washington, D.C., locker room.
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Sharply Differing Accounts as Girl, 16, Is Arraigned in a Fatal Stabbing
Bail was set at $300,000 for Cyan Brown, whose lawyer sparred with a prosecutor over her role in Thomas Winston’s death.
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Unarmed, Shop Owner Turned Tables on Gunmen
A Brooklyn shop owner wrested a gun away from a would-be robber and fatally shot the two men who tried to hold up his store.
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In This Murder Mystery, the Only Real Mystery Was Whether It Was Self-Defense
 In his murder trial, Joe Seals, 64, did not cite a struggling-for-the-gun sort of self defense, but something older and deeper, steeped in reputation and bad blood.
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Attack Victim Charged in Death of a Bystander
Maurice Parks, a city transit worker, was initially deemed to have been acting in self-defense when he fatally stabbed another man.
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Grand Jury Clears Man in Death of Girl, 15, After Dispute in Queens
Winston Alladin fatally stabbed Keyanna Jones, who he said was part of a mob of teenagers attacking him after an argument on a bus the night of June 25.
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LETTERS; Do Guns or Tasers Make People Safer?
Letters from Ken Rothchild, John Cork, Daniel L Schmutter, Timothy O Corkery and Alfred R Barr respond to Paul H Robinson July 2 Op-Ed contending that with Tasers and development of other less lethal weapons, it will become increasingly unlikely for people to use their constitutionally permitted handguns to defend themselves against intruders
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Shoot to Stun
 As effective less-than-lethal weapons proliferate, the laws of self-defense may ultimately relegate last week’s Second Amendment ruling to the status of an odd little opinion.
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Court Weighs Right to Guns, and Its Limits
 A majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready to embrace an interpretation of the Second Amendment that protects the right to own a gun for personal use.
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Arizona Weighs Bill to Allow Guns on Campuses
A state lawmaker suggested that allowing adults to carry concealed weapons might deter future shooting rampages.
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Border Patrol Agent’s Trial in Killing of Illegal Immigrant Starts in Arizona
 Whether the agent’s action was murder or self-defense is being resolved at a trial that began this week in the heated atmosphere over illegal immigration.
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Killing of a Young Hiker Puts North Georgia on Edge
 Hundreds of women have enrolled in crash courses on personal safety as a community struggles to come to grips with the apparently random murder of a 24-year-old hiker.
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Man Who Fought Attackers Was Rejected 3 Times by Police Dept.
The transit worker, Maurice Parks, 39, passed a written examination to join the New York Police Department in 1992, 1993 and 1999, but then was disqualified each time.
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Shootings Test Limits of New Self-Defense Law
A Texas case in which a man shot dead two men who were breaking into a neighbor’s house has set off a storm of issues.
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