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On 11/4/14 11:01 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:29:23 -0500, BAR wrote:

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On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:19:27 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 11/3/14 9:34 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 07:51:26 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

I don't want to make a big deal out of this. I was over in Virginia last
week middle the week trying to get a part for my wife's rug shampooer.
Out in the strip mall parking lot, I saw a guy physically and verbally
abusing a woman and her child. He was slapping the woman and pulling on
the child. I asked him to stop. He got verbally abusive towards me and
then he took a swing at me. He missed. I swung at his face as hard as I
could with my right hand and connected.
He fell to the ground but I didn't knock him out just staggered him. I
told the woman to call the cops but she didn't want to. She thanked me
and she and the kid got in her car and drove away. The guy I hit got up
and gave me a dirty look and got his car and drove away. My lower arm
and wrist hurt like a son of a bitch so I ended up at the ER this past
weekend and x-rays showed I busted a couple of bones in my wrist in
hitting the parking lot asshole. No good deed goes unpunished. So, no
typing.

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Congratulations on doing the right thing. In Florida you could have
legally shot him and saved your wrist.

I don't live in Florida and i saw no need for deadly force.

The strange thing in the law is, if he was seriously injured or if he
died, you might as well have shot him.

You could still be sued, just for hitting him.

Why didn't Harry pull out his concealed firearm and shot the guy, Harry
says that he has a CCW that allows him to carry in Virginia and since it
is the home of the national right to work he had reason, in his mind, to
carry.

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In Florida the guy was guilty of two felonies, assaulting a female and
child, and attempted assault on a senior citizen. That makes it very
close to a valid "stand your ground" defense here, maybe not so much
in Maryland or Virginia. On balance it was probably not a justified
deadly force incident. It would be however if someones life or health
had clearly been at risk.

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct. And of course I don't
live in the state where the use of deadly force is a decision easily
arrived at. Even Virginia is not as lawless in this regard as Florida.

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