Self Defender Arrested! Paul Lathrop
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with truck driver and radio host Paul Lathrop as he tells us about the day he and his truck driving student stopped to get fuel, were accosted by an angry driver and how he ended up in jail for defending himself, his student and his big rig; including the agonizing and expensive six-month legal process. Also, we sit down with founder of TheReload.com founder and reporter Stephen Gutowski to discuss the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a case involving New York states restrictive concealed carry laws. Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever and the rest of the ASP staff as they talk to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Title music by Jorikbasov.
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| 0:00.0 | If you are involved in a self-defense encounter, my number one first piece of advice, you need to win the race to 911. |
| 0:08.2 | You need to call the police first. |
| 0:13.4 | Hey, their self-defenders, John Korea is proud to be an ambassador for Hekler and Coke Pistols. |
| 0:18.1 | The entire active self-protection team loves our HKs, knowing that we |
| 0:21.7 | can drag them all over the country, shoot thousands of rounds of years through each one, |
| 0:25.8 | subject them to very little care, and they will always go bang, incredibly reliable and a joy to shoot. |
| 0:30.7 | Please visit them at hk-usa.com, hk-usa.com, and tell them the Active Self-Protection podcast sent you. Okay, everybody, welcome back them the Active Self-Protection Podcast sent you. |
| 0:38.9 | Okay, everybody, welcome back to the Active Self Protection Podcast. |
| 0:41.7 | I am your host, Mike Williver, your favorite former Fed. |
| 0:46.0 | With us today is my new friend Paul Lathrop. |
| 0:48.9 | He is the Deputy Director of New Media at Second Amendment Foundation, |
| 0:52.4 | the Second Amendment Foundation. |
| 0:56.2 | And he hosts a number of shows. |
| 1:02.5 | Probably the most notable one for him is the Daily Bullet, which could be found Monday through Friday, |
| 1:08.7 | on the Second Amendment Foundation's Facebook page and YouTube channel. Paul, welcome. Thanks for being on the show. |
| 1:15.9 | Thanks for inviting me, man. So this is kind of cool. I do interview Steve Yatowski. Folks, remember to stay tuned for that after this interview every week. And I just talked to an NPR reporter about his new book. So it's kind of cool |
| 1:21.3 | getting to robobiles with cool media types. So this is new to me. I feel like I'm all growing up |
| 1:26.5 | now. Paul, what part of the country are you in? |
| 1:29.6 | I, uh, I'm in a Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Okay. Yeah, we were talking before. I was just there not long ago for the active self-protection in person cohort for the instructor development class. And I really enjoyed it. Really nice people. I I I I you couldn't pay me to live anywhere else in the country. People have |
| 1:46.0 | tried and I just, I will not leave. I love it here. Yeah, I don't know if you know Neil and |
| 1:52.1 | Stephanie Weidner, but okay, yeah, yeah, they feel the same way. They got a nice spread. You know, |
| 1:56.6 | Neil's got a, no, I shouldn't taste it on the air. Neil's got a range on his property now, |
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