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DDDDave, I have to thank you for further reinforcing for me that I shouldn't turn to the police for protection. Your statements and the Supreme Court ruling have ensured that a loaded rifle sits next to my bed when I sleep. If I were in that situation, and I were carrying, I would have shot that guy if he didn't stop after I told him. They can take their laws and shove them up their collective ass.
And I have to say, you and your wife's assesment of the video scares me. You just assume the guy said some racist remarks. Then you think he could have "retreated" out a crowded and cluttered store when the only likely escape route was blocked off by a three hundred pound guy who was shortly punching him in the head. The guy TRIED to escape, but got dragged back and beaten down some more. Have you ever been punched in the head? It is pretty fucking disorienting, I have to say. If you get punched hard enough, and you aren't expecting it, which this guy didn't seem to be, you won't be able to do anything as complicated as running away. Maybe stagger around a little then fall down.
There was no fight, all I saw was battery. The guy never even attempted to fight, he just got his head punched. Once he was on the ground, the big guy should have walked away. But he kept up his assault. Could you, at that moment, say you knew that he wouldn't continue the beating until the other man was dead? No, you can't. To me that would be a perfectly good reason to produce a weapon and tell that ape to stop. Anyway, you believe what you want.
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