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Understanding self-defense and the truth about using deadly force

April 19, 2023 Dr. Patrick Toner 57

American self-defense law is generally quite sensible, and in fact coheres remarkably well with Catholic teaching on self-defense. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, wrote: Wherefore if a man, in self-defense, uses more than necessary violence, […]

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