title: AFTERMATH: Lessons In-Self Defense: What To Expect When the Shooting Stops
author: Jim Fleming
description: Jim Fleming, is a former police officer, a practicing attorney with thirty-two years of experience in handling criminal trials and civil tort litigation. He has served as an expert witness for other attorneys in more than a dozen homicide and firearm related cases and is one of the founders of Mid-Minnesota Self-Defense, Inc. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network and on the Legal Panel for CCW Safe. He has provided continuing legal education to attorneys across the county on the issues that arise in handling self-defense cases.
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  Close Quarters
  
  
  As I heaved myself upright again, I checked to make sure that I had penetrated
  far enough that my background was clear, and I wasn’t about to accidentally
  put a bullet into one of my teammates. There was the chance that something
  would over-penetrate and hit the house across the street, but there really are
  only so many angles that can be called “safe” when you’re opening fire in a
  residential neighborhood.
  
  
  The subgun came out of my jacket, hitting the end of the sling, the fiber-
  optic sights gleaming even in the dark. I was only a step away from the car,
  and while they had been watching me and laughing, neither of the sicarios had
  gotten out, though their windows were rolled down to let the smoke out. I
  could see just enough to see the surprise on the closest sicario’s face, just
  before I obliterated it with a four-round burst of 9mm hollow points.
  
  
  His companion didn’t even have time to register shock as the contents of the
  first guy’s skull 