No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society.

Duty to Retreat for Aggressors At the very least, CAEFS supports a different self-defence rule for persons exercising legal authority such as police and guards, as well as a separate rule for those who commence a physical altercation or threaten to do so.

Richard Maxwell Brown argues in No Duty to Retreat that the Mussel Slough shootout did not fit the mold of the gunfight/hero myth, which usually ignores such factors as ideology, and social and economic conflict, thus not implanting it in the lore of the American Old West.