re: #44 reine.de.tout

If I take time to figure out IF I can reasonably flee, then I’m dead, Obdi, and I can’t show anything.

I’m sorry, I’m not sure what you’re referring to. If you’re being attacked by someone who’s obviously more fit than you are, you’re not going to be reasonably able to flee. Pardon the inference, but since you had daughter of college age I was assuming you were a woman of maturity and might not be the fleetest of foot.

And even this law still requires you to figure out— to have a reasonable claim— that the attack on you is likely to be lethal or cause you serious injury. So there’s always some figuring that you’ll have to do.

There is no way to make self-defense laws crafted so that private citizens are on equal footing with criminals. This is because criminals are willing to break the law. The only way to make citizens equal with criminals in a confrontation is to remove the law entirely.