Two Types of Self Defense with CAPT Barry D. Todd (Army Ranger, ret.), author of "Stand Your Ground"
On this day before Thanksgiving, Wed. 26 Nov. 2025 our topic is what I wrote about for Orange County Gun Owners/San Diego County Gun Owners blog (now published at Gun Owners Radio blog) 9 April 2020, what I called then "Two Types of Self Defense." One type is against the threat the immoral criminal aggressor -- the training appropriate to that threat might involve self defense training with weapons or martial arts and situational awareness. The second type of self defense, though, is self defense against the criminal justice system that wrongly sides with the immoral criminal against victims trying to defend themselves.
Michael Schwartz posted my guest post but you can see my name in the byline as the author. You can read my 9 April 2020 article on Gun Owners Radio blog here : https://gunownersradio.com/two-types-of-self-defense/
Retired Army Ranger Captain Barry D. Todd describes his experience with both types of self defense in his book "Stand Your Ground: One Man's Self-Defense Nightmare." It's available on Barnes and Noble or Amazon or on the Defense Resources Foundation website, DefenseResourcesFoundation.org .
The best way to get the book is to visit
The foundation he started is dedicated to preventing this kind of victimization of victims by our criminal justice system. There is a link to donate.
Enjoy our conversation, buy the book and read it, and enjoy your Thanksgiving 2025.
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Therefore, welcome CAPT Barry D. Todd (US Army Ranger, ret.) !
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Reading the Bible w/ the Founding Fathers Interrupted by Great Horned Owl-- Oxford U Press --Intro 2
Part 2 here was interrupted by a Great Horned Owl encounter.
"The American Founders read the Bible," Oxford University Rhodes Scholar Daniel Dreisbach says in his first sentence of his Oxford University Press book. "They knew the Bible from cover to cover."
"Its ideas shaped their habits of mind."
"Biblical language and themes
"The Bible left its mark on the political culture of the era."
We had the author, Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach, D.Phil. (Oxford), JD (University of Virginia Law School) on the podcast for Thanksgiving, Fall 2022.
This is a special book for a special time of year: Thanksgiving going into Advent.
We're going to make a fair use, do a transformative reading of the book. We'd like to thank Dr. Dreisbach for writing this, and thank Oxford University Press for making it available.
Support publishers when they make something worth reading.
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This episode was filmed in the study of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) Epistemology mentor Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard), a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great Dallas Willard of USC's Philosophy Department.
The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-and-adequately-articulating-the-Bible's-appropriate-influence-on-American-politics podcast.
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Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers -- Oxford University Press -- Happy Thanksgiving Intro 1
"The American Founders read the Bible," Oxford University Rhodes Scholar Daniel Dreisbach says in his first sentence of his Oxford University Press book. "They knew the Bible from cover to cover."
"Its ideas shaped their habits of mind."
"Biblical language and themes
"The Bible left its mark on the political culture of the era."
We had the author, Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach, D.Phil. (Oxford), JD (University of Virginia Law School) on the podcast for Thanksgiving, Fall 2022.
This is a special book for a special time of year: Thanksgiving going into Advent.
We're going to make a fair use, do a transformative reading of the book. We'd like to thank Dr. Dreisbach for writing this, and thank Oxford University Press for making it available.
Support publishers when they make something worth reading.
Support the publisher and throw some bidness their way. Support your brick and mortar book dealer.
This episode was filmed in the study of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) Epistemology mentor Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard), a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great Dallas Willard of USC's Philosophy Department.
The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-and-adequately-articulating-the-Bible's-appropriate-influence-on-American-politics podcast.
Therefore, welcome again, through his writing, Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach, D.Phil., J.D.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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Origins of Political Correctness and Wokeness -- The Age of Entitlement: America Since the 60s cont.
This is a continuation of a transformative reading and fair use of Chris Caldwell's "The Age of Entitlement" published by Simon and Schuster in 2020.
We finish chapter 2, Race, today, including the crucial subsections pertaining to the origins of political correctness.
We'd like to thank Chris Caldwell for writing it, Simon and Schuster for making it available, and encourage you to purchase your own physical copy of the book so that you can follow along. Please support brick and mortar book dealers, you local book dealers.
I'd like to thank my former political philosophy student Matt Stone (Phil M03: Social and Political Philosophy at Moorpark College, Spring 2008) for purchasing my copy of the book for me and supporting TRP podcast.
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A Christian View of the 2nd Amendment: New Mexico's 7 Day Waiting Period Rejected by 10th Circuit in Ortega v. Grisham
This episode begins with a narrative of the host on a Christian view of the Second Amendment folding right into part 3 of 3 in Ortega v. Grisham (19 August 2025, 10th Circuit).
"[T]he waiting period is just an artificial delay on possession" (p. 20), "a standardless, temporary disarmament measure" (p.21) according to the Republican federal appeals court judges on the 10th Circuit, appointed by Trump and Bush. This is part 3 of a 3-part series following the injunctive relief individuals got on 19 August 2025, when the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Democrat Legislature in New Mexico on the 7-day "cooling off period" wait for firearms. And the 3 judge panel split along Republican/Democrat lines , 2 to 1, with both George W. Bush and Trump Republicans on the same side of the Constitution against an Obama judge.
Here's a link to the decision. https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/010111284574.pdf
We finish that story in this part 3 of 3 part series here on The Republican Professor podcast.
This episode includes a reading of Psalm 85 (ESV) and Streams in the Desert January 19th (Cowman Publications: Los Feliz Station, Lost Angeles , California 1925 years after Jesus).
This episode was filmed in the study of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) Epistemology mentor Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard), a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great Dallas Willard of USC's Philosophy Department.
The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-articulating-the-Second-Amendment's-moral-and-legal-boundaries, anti-silly-prohibitions podcast.
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