re: #95 Talking Point Detective

messed that reply up, above.

What the law says is something about “meet force with force.” What it doesn’t do is specify proportionality - although the bill’s sponsor says that it does.

The type of parameters you describe are entirely subjective. Suppose you’re an out of shape diabetic and the smaller guy is a decathlete?

This is one of the problems with the law.

In my case? It wouldn’t matter. The way I’ve talked so often of my internal struggle to “cage the demon”, coupled with my descriptions of the severe stress I am often under would make conviction a slam dunk. I’d be painted as a person who finally lost the battle to control the worst part of himself and now must pay for the damage letting that part slip its leash had caused.

Believe it or not, in a case like that what I’ve written here would likely hang me, and I know it. So if the other guy was not armed, I’d just take whatever beat-down he decided to administer and hope to avoid permanent injury.